Grotius, Pufendorf and modern natural law

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Grotius, Pufendorf and modern natural law

edited by Knud Haakonssen

(The international library of critical essays in the history of philosophy)

Dartmouth, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This is a collection of essays ranging from "Pufendorf, Sociality and the Modern State" by Craig L. Carr and Michael Seidler, to "Conscience and Reason: The Natural Law Theory of Jean Barbeyrac" by Tim Hochstrasser.

Table of Contents

  • Grotius: the impious hypothesis - a paradox in Hugo Grotius? M.B. Crowe
  • Hugo Grotius and the history of political thought, Knud Haakonssen
  • Grotius on scepticism and self-interest, Robert Shaver
  • Grotius, Carneades and Hobbes, Richard Tuck. Selden: an eccentric 17th century witness to Natural Law - John Selden (1584-1654), M. B. Crowe
  • John Selden, the Law of Nature, and the origins of government, Johann P. Sommerville. Pufendorf: Pufendorf, sociality and the modern state, Craig L. Carr, Michael J. Seidler
  • Pufendorf and the correlativity theory of rights, Thomas Mautner
  • Samuel Pufendorf - obligation as the basis of the state, Michael Nutkiewicz
  • Pufendorf's place in the history of ethics, Jerome B. Scneewind. Leibniz: the early development of Leibniz's concept of justice, Robert J. Mulvaney
  • divine justice in Leibniz, Robert J. Mulvaney. Cumberland: the place of Richard Cumberland in the history of Natural Law, Murray Forsyth
  • voluntarism and the origins of utilitarianism, J. B. Schneewind. Thomasius: the 'practical philosophy' of Christian Thomasius, F.M. Barnard
  • Fraternity and citizenship - two ethics of mutuality in Christian Thomasius, F.M. Barnard
  • on Christian Thomasius and his alleged offspring, the' German enlightment', Robert Spaeting. Barbeyrac: conscience and reason - the Natural Law theory of Jean Barneyrac, Tim Hochstrasser. Vattel: Vattel's doctrine of the state, Frederick G. Whelan. Rousseau: Rousseau's Pufendorf, Robert Wokler. Kant: Kant and Natural Law ethics, J.B. Schneewind. Other natural law theories: the source of the "Encyclopedie Article, Anthony Burns
  • Johann August Schlettwein and the Economic Faculty at the University of Gieben, Diethelm Klippel
  • political philosophers and the trouble with polygamy - patriarchal reasoning in modern Natural Law, Ursula Vogel.

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