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10 Best Natural Law Books
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1. America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It by C. Bradley Thompson Review Summary
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America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It
America’s Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood’s The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the “real American Revolution”; that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the 1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought, and the new moral and political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776. The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of thought―what Thomas Jefferson called an “American mind” or what I call “America’s Revolutionary mind.” This American mind was, I argue, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
2. Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers by Nancy Mohrbacher Review Summary
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Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
The Definitive Guide to Breastfeeding Your Baby Breastfeeding may be natural, but it may also be more challenging than you expect. Some mothers encounter doubts and difficulties, from struggling with the first few feedings to finding a gentle and loving way to comfortably wean from the breast. This second edition of Breastfeeding Made Simple is an essential guide to breastfeeding that every new and expectant mom should own-a comprehensive resource that takes the mystery out of basic breastfeeding dynamics. Understanding the seven natural laws of breastfeeding will help you avoid and overcome challenges such as low milk production, breast refusal, weaning difficulties, and every other obstacle that can keep you from enjoying breastfeeding your baby. Breastfeeding Made Simple will help you to: • Find comfortable, relaxing breastfeeding positions • Establish ample milk production and a satisfying breastfeeding rhythm with your baby • Overcome discomfort and mastitis • Use a breast pump to express and store milk • Easily transition to solid foods
3. Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence by Gregory Cajete Review Summary
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
In Native Science, Gregory Cajete “tells the story” of Indigenous science as a way of understanding, experiencing, and feeling the natural world. He points to parallels and differences between the Indigenous science and Western science paradigms, with special emphasis on environmental/ecological studies. After discussing philosophical foundations, Cajete addresses such topics as history and myth, primal elements, social ecology, animals in myth and reality, plants and human health, and cosmology and astronomy. In the Indigenous view, we human observers are in no way separate from the world and its creatures and forces. Because all creatures and forces are related and thus bear responsibility to and for one another, all are co- creators. Five centuries ago Europeans arrived on the American continent, but they did not listen to the people who had lived for millennia in spiritual and physical harmony with this land. In a time of global environmental degradation, the science and worldview of the continent’s First Peoples offer perspectives that can help us work toward solutions.
4. When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T. Anderson Review Summary
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When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodiment, a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. This book exposes the contrast between the media’s sunny depiction of gender fluidity and the often sad reality of living with gender dysphoria. It gives a voice to people who tried to “transition” by changing their bodies, and found themselves no better off. Especially troubling are the stories told by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later regretted subjecting themselves to those drastic procedures. As Anderson shows, the most beneficial therapies focus on helping people accept themselves and live in harmony with their bodies. This understanding is vital for parents with children in schools where counselors may steer a child toward transitioning behind their backs. Everyone has something at stake in the controversies over transgender ideology, when misguided “antidiscrimination” policies allow biological men into women’s restrooms and penalize Americans who hold to the truth about human nature. Anderson offers a strategy for pushing back with principle and prudence, compassion and grace.
5. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (with linked TOC) by Jeremy Bentham Review Summary
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (with linked TOC)
This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. Jeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism and animal rights, and the idea of the panopticon. His position included arguments in favour of individual and economic freedom, usury, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalizing of homosexual acts. He also argued for the abolition of slavery, physical punishment (including that of children) and the death penalty. Although strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them “nonsense upon stilts.” He became the most influential of the utilitarians, through his own work and that of his students. These included his secretary and collaborator on the utilitarian school of philosophy, James Mill; James Mill’s son John Stuart Mill; John Austin, legal philosopher; and several political leaders, including Robert Owen, a founder of modern socialism. He is also considered the godfather of University College London. Bentham’s ambition in life was to create a “Pannomion”, a complete utilitarian code of law. Bentham not only proposed many legal and social reforms, but also expounded an underlying moral principle on which they should be based. This utilitarianism philosophy argued that the right act or policy was that which would cause “the greatest good for the greatest number of people”, also known as “the greatest happiness principle”, or the principle of utility. He wrote in The Principles of Morals and Legislation: ” Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think.. ” He also suggested a procedure for estimating the moral status of any action, which he called the Hedonistic or felicific calculus. Utilitarianism was revised and expanded by Bentham’s student, John Stuart Mill. In Mill’s hands, “Benthamism” became a major element in the liberal conception of state policy objectives. —From Wikipedia
6. Legal Heroes: in the Trump Era by Tahmina Watson Review Summary
7. When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T. Anderson Review Summary
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment
Can a boy be “trapped” in a girl’s body? Can modern medicine “reassign” sex? Is our sex “assigned” to us in the first place? What is the most loving response to a person experiencing a conflicted sense of gender? What should our law say on matters of “gender identity”? When Harry Became Sally provides thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan Anderson offers a nuanced view of human embodiment, a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. This book exposes the contrast between the media’s sunny depiction of gender fluidity and the often sad reality of living with gender dysphoria. It gives a voice to people who tried to “transition” by changing their bodies, and found themselves no better off. Especially troubling are the stories told by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later regretted subjecting themselves to those drastic procedures. As Anderson shows, the most beneficial therapies focus on helping people accept themselves and live in harmony with their bodies. This understanding is vital for parents with children in schools where counselors may steer a child toward transitioning behind their backs. Everyone has something at stake in the controversies over transgender ideology, when misguided “antidiscrimination” policies allow biological men into women’s restrooms and penalize Americans who hold to the truth about human nature. Anderson offers a strategy for pushing back with principle and prudence, compassion and grace.
8. On Law, Morality and Politics, 2nd Edition (Hackett Classics) by Thomas Aquinas Review Summary
On Law, Morality and Politics, 2nd Edition (Hackett Classics)
The second edition of Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics retains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J. Regan–including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett, 2000). A revised Introduction and glossary, an updated select bibliography, and the inclusion of summarizing headnotes for each of the units –Conscience, Law, Justice, Property, War and Killing, Obedience and Rebellion, and Practical Wisdom and Statecraft–further enhance its usefulness.
9. The Complete Works of Lysander Spooner: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, Vices are Not Crimes, Natural … Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails by Lysander Spooner Review Summary
The Complete Works of Lysander Spooner: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, Vices are Not Crimes, Natural ... Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails
Madison & Adams presents this meticulously edited collection of Lysander Spooner’s political, economics, legal and constitutional works, as well as writings on religion and works on slavery and abolition. Contents: Political Works No Treason, No. I No Treason. No II – The Constitution No Treason. No VI – The Constitution of No Authority Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty No. 1. Revolution Natural Law; or the Science of Justice A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard A Letter to Grover Cleveland Writings on Economics: Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure A New System of Paper Currency Our Mechanical Industry as Affected by our Present Currency System Considerations for Bankers, and Holders of United States Bonds A New Banking System: The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations, and Frauds The Law of Prices Gold and Silver as Standards of Value: The Flagrant Cheat in Regard to Them Universal Wealth Shown to be Easily Attainable Law & Constitution : “To the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts.” Worcester Republican Supreme Court of United States, January Term, 1839. Spooner vs. M’Connell, et al. Constitutional Law Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster An Essay on the Trial by Jury The Law of Intellectual Property Articles of Association of the Spooner Copyright Company for Massachusetts A Letter to Scientist and Inventors, on the Science of Justice, and their Right of Perpetual Property in their Discoveries and Inventions Works on Religion: The Deist’s Immortality, and an Essay on Man’s Accountability for his Belief The Deist’s Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity Works on Slavery and Abolition: A Defence for Fugitive Slaves A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
10. Economic Personalism: Power, Property and Justice for Every Person by Michael D Greaney Review Summary
Economic Personalism: Power, Property and Justice for Every Person
A Book That Could Change Your Thinking About Social and Economic Justice Forever For over 200 years people have been systematically stripped of their dignity as human persons, first by capitalism, then by socialism, as capital ownership became concentrated first in a private e lite, then in a State bureaucracy. Forgotten was the demand that the dignity of every child, woman, and man be respected by equal access to the opportunity and means to be productive through ownership of both labor and capital. In Economic Personalism: Power, Property and Justice for Every Person , co- authors Michael D. Greaney and Dawn K. Brohawn explain briefly what happened and why. They then present the principles of how essential institutions can be put back on track to serve the needs of every person. Giving the framework for an economic order that is neither individualist (capitalism) nor collectivist (socialism), but personalist, this book brings into the light of day assumptions about nature, society, and the human person, and about Church, State, and Family that have raised barriers against the full participation of every person in the institutions of the common good. The result of years of intensive research and work in applying the principles of the Just Third Way, Economic Personalism has the potential not only to revitalize how individuals view their institutions and their place in society, but lays out principles that could guide and inspire debate on vital issues of the day and shape public discourse and future policy. Although based on Catholic social teaching based on natural law, the book is written from an interfaith perspective and is readily accessible and applicable by people of all faiths and philosophies.