Evolution of Natural Law Theory

Author: Shen Jianlin
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The topic of this book—Western natural law and human rights issues—belongs to interdisciplinary hot topics and is also a classic foundational theoretical issue. The author's interdisciplinary knowledge structure and long-term academic accumulation provide favorable conditions for this research. Linking natural law and human rights to study the human rights perspective of Western natural law schools is the major feature of this book. Theoretically, human rights are the core theme of modern and contemporary political philosophy and jurisprudence, and fundamental political values such as freedom, equality, and democracy can all be derived from some form of human rights. In reality, human rights are the goal and soul of constitutionalism. As a constitutional document in the sense of constitutionalism, the constitution is not just a map of state power but also a declaration of rights.