Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and  political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years.  On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary  world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of the  opposition-the rationalism of the philosophes, the utilitarianism of Bentham,  the materialism of Marx-appear to have made prior philosophies irrelevant. Yet  these newer philosophies themselves have been overtaken by disillusionment  born of confl icts between "might" and "right." Many thoughtful people who  were loyal to secular belief have become dissatisfi ed with the lack of normative principles and have turned once more to natural law. This fi rst book-length study of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958,  explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in, the natural  law.

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