Looking for books about natural law. Any suggestions?

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Robin Posted: Mon, Jun 22 2009 12:23 AM

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I'm trying to find the best book that attempts to prove the existance of natural law. I would really appreciate some help.

PS: Books written by anarchist authors only please (Rothbard for example). I'm not looking for minarchist books at this time. Thank you.

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Laughing Man replied on Mon, Jun 22 2009 12:33 AM

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Robin:

I'm trying to find the best book that attempts to prove the existance of natural law. I would really appreciate some help.

PS: Books written by anarchist authors only please (Rothbard for example). I'm not looking for minarchist books at this time. Thank you.

Hey you get a two for one deal. Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty. The first several chapters are about natural law.

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Robin replied on Mon, Jun 22 2009 1:12 AM

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Anarchist Cain:

Hey you get a two for one deal. Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty. The first several chapters are about natural law.

I just finished reading Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty a few hours ago. In the beginning of the book he says something like, "It is not the purpose of this book to go into detail proving the existence of natural law." (That's just a paraphrase, I might be able to find the exact wording if you want.)

The reason I'm here is because I'm looking for a book that does go into detail about it.

Any suggestions?

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Laughing Man replied on Mon, Jun 22 2009 1:25 AM

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Hmm I know of no book that is just specifically natural law alone. There is Locke, Hugo Grotius, Francisco Suárez, Samuel von Pufendorf, Aristotle to a degree.

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Robin replied on Mon, Jun 22 2009 1:52 AM

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Anarchist Cain:

Hmm I know of no book that is just specifically natural law alone. There is Locke, Hugo Grotius, Francisco Suárez, Samuel von Pufendorf, Aristotle to a degree.

Okay, thank you. If you know of any book that covers it in more detail than Ethics of Liberty then that would help too.

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Jon Irenicus replied on Mon, Jun 22 2009 8:13 AM

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Look up Norms of Liberty and Liberty and Nature by Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas den Uyl and Rational Man, For an ontology of morals and Human Rights: fact or fancy? by Henry Veatch.