Procedural natural law Book

Blackman (law, DePaul College of Law) argues a necessary connection between law and morality based on the ways in which people use language. He questions substantive natural theories of thinkers including Locke, Rousseau, and Nozick (based on social contract theory) and Aquinas and Finnis (based on human nature). He places himself in contradistinction to these theories with a view of natural law that is procedural rather than substantive. He interweaves analysis of natural law with examples from the US, Nazi Germany, and Yugoslavia, and with writings by Lewis Carrol and Franz Kafka. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR