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9 - Natural Law Reasoning in Applied Ethics

Four Paradigms

from Part II - Practical Reason, Normativity and Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2017

By
Jacqueline Laing
Edited by
George Duke  and
Robert P. George
George Duke
Affiliation:
Deakin University, Victoria
Robert P. George
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence , pp. 216 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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