On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method (Hemmingsen)

Author: Niels Hemmingsen

ISBN: 9781949011005

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

On the Law of Nature is at once a traditional and eclectic treatise of moral philosophy by one of the sixteenth century’s most widely read Protestant authors. In this treatise Niels Hemmingsen, the "Teacher of Denmark," argues that all particular rules of ethical conduct can be derived from immutable axioms or first principles. Though moral philosophy works according to its own rules, Hemmingsen shows that its conclusions, far from being at odds with the divine revelation of the moral law, are identical with the ethical commandments of Scripture.