Hans Kelsen and the tradition of natural law: why Kelsen’s objections to the natural-law doctrine does not apply against Aquinas’s theory of natural law
In his works, Hans Kelsen elaborates several objections to the so-called “doctrine of natural law”, especially in his essay The Natural-Law Doctrine Before the Tribunal of Science. Kelsen argues that natural law theorists, searching for an absolute criterion for justice, try to deduce from nature the rules of human behavior. Robert P. George, in the essay Kelsen and Aquinas on the ‘Natural Law Doctrine’ examines his criticism and concludes that what Kelsen understands as the Natural-law doctrine does not include the natural law theory elaborated by Thomas Aquinas. In this paper, we will try to corroborate George’s theses and try to show how Aquinas’ natural law theory can be vindicated against Kelsens criticisms.
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| Author: | Júlio Aguiar de Oliveira, Bárbara Alencar Ferreira Lessa |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-249015 |
| Series (Serial Number) | 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology (043) |
| Publisher: | Goethe-Univ. |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | Aristotle; Hans Kelsen; Natural Law; Thomas Aquinas |
| Institutes: | Rechtswissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
