{"product_id":"9780865975170","title":"Selections from Three Works: A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver A Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith A Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Suárez was a principal figure in the transition from scholastic to modern natural law, summing up a long and rich tradition and providing much material both for adoption and controversy in the seventeenth century and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of the selections translated in this volume are from \u003ci\u003eOn the Laws and God the Law-Giver\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDe legibus ac Deo legislatore,\u003c\/i\u003e 1612), a work that is considered one of Suárez’s greatest achievements. Working within the framework originally elaborated by Thomas Aquinas, Suárez treated humanity as the subject of four different laws, which together guide human beings toward the ends of which they are capable. Suárez achieved a double objective in his systematic account of moral activity. First, he examined and synthesized the entire scholastic heritage of thinking on this topic, identifying the key issues of debate and the key authors who had formulated the different positions most incisively. Second, he went beyond this heritage of authorities to present a new account of human moral action and its relationship to the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreading a fine line between those to whom moral directives are purely a matter of reason and those to whom they are purely a matter of a commanding will, Suárez attempted to show how both human reason and the command of the lawgiver dictate the moral space of human action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Liberty Fund edition is a revised version of that prepared for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace by translators Gwladys L. Williams, Ammi Brown, and John Waldron, with revisions by Henry Davis, S. J.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancisco Suárez\u003c\/b\u003e (1548–1617), a Jesuit priest, was professor of theology at the University of Salamanca in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnabel S. Brett\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow, Tutor, and University Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032964874480,"sku":"9780865975170","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865975170_p0.jpg?v=1769911927","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865975170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}