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contexts and strategies in the early Enlightenment
The study of natural law theories is presently one of the most fruitful areas of research in the studies of early modern intellectual history, and moral and political theory. This text offers a timely opportunity to re-examine the coherence of the concept of an 'early Englightenment'.
Introduction / Tim Hochstrasser, Peter Schröder -- Before and after natural law : models of natural law in ancient and modern times / Merio Scattola -- Taming the leviathan, reading Hobbes in seventeenth-century Europe / Jon Parkin -- Malebranche and natural law / Patrick Riley -- The reception of Hugo Grotius's De jure belli ac pacis in the early German enlightenment / Frank Grunert -- Revolution principles, ius naturae, and ius gentium in early-enlightenment Scotland : the contribution of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (c.1660-1726) / Clare Jackson -- Natural jurisprudence, argument from history and constitutional struggle in the early enlightenment : the case of Gottlieb Samuel Treuer's polemic against absolutism in 1719 / Robert von Friedeburg -- The love of a sage or the command of a superior : the natural law doctrines of Leibniz and Pufendorf / Ian Hunter -- Voluntarism and moral obligation : Barbeyrac's defence of Pufendorf revisited / Petter Korkman -- The politics of self-preservation : toleration and identity in Pufendorf and Locke / Michael J. Seidler -- Des sympathia et antipathia rerum : natural law, religion and the rejection of mechanistic science in the works of Christian Thomasius / Thomas Ahnert -- Decorum and politesse : Thomasius's theory of civilised society in comparative perspective / Simone Zurbuchen -- Natural law and enlightenment in France and Scotland : a comparative perspective / Peter Schröder.
edited by T.J. Hochstrasser, London School of Economics, London, and P. Schröder, University College, London.
Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 2-3, 1999 at the University of London.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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