Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812691207)

Aristotle's way of thinking has normally been understood as hostile to any liberal, pluralistic, or commercial society. In Liberal Nature, Rasmussen and Den Uyl set out to show that the Aristotelian approach to ethics supports the natural rights which form the most secure basis for liberal principles. The authors lay the foundations for their thesis by rebutting the most prominent arguments against the Aristotelian approach; they then offer a new interpretation for Aristotelian ethics as a natural-end ethics in which human flourishing is the ultimate moral standard.

Author: Douglas Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl
ISBN-10: 0812691202
ISBN-13: 9780812691207
Publisher: Open Court
Language: English
Published: 03/10/1991
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.14w x 0.72d