دانلود کتاب حقوق طبیعی و دولت

Government is both an essential ingredient to human flourishing, but also represents the greatest threat to human dignity. Thus, in order for people to become all that they might be it seems necessary to establish forms of government that promote its best attributes, but also restrain it from its worst inclinations. In this chapter I first set-out my motivation for writing this third and final part of my local government trilogy. Thereafter I provide a brief explanation of key natural law concepts and explain what it is that makes human dignity both unique and worthy of respect. Following this I survey some of the extant work directed at limiting the worst excesses of government (something which seems necessary to promote human flourishing). I conclude with an account of how I propose to convince you that local government, in particular, is critical to this aim.