Science, religion and politics in restoration England : Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturae
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Science, religion and politics in restoration England : Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturae
（Royal Historical Society studies in history new series）
Royal Historical Society , Boydell Press, 1999
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Bibliography: p. 229-244
Includes index
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Description
A new perspective on the interaction of science, religion and politics in Restoration England, based on discussion of Cumberland's De legibus naturae.
Richard Cumberland is one of the seventeenth century's most interesting political theorists. His masterpiece, the De legibus naturae(1672), has rarely been examined on its own terms, but by tracing the political, religiousand intellectual circumstances of the composition of this puzzling work, and showing its importance as a critique of Thomas Hobbes, author of the Leviathan, Dr Parkin demonstrates how Cumberland created a new political andethical theory which absorbed and neutralised many of Hobbes's insights. He also examines the science of the Royal Society as a basis for Cumberland's natural law theory and its influence on such thinkers as Samuel Pufendorf and John Locke. Overall, the book provides an important new perspective on the interaction of science, religion and politics in Restoration England.
Dr JON PARKIN teaches in the Department of History at King's College, London.
Table of Contents
- The political context
- the natural-law debate
- "De Legibus Naturae" - I
- the Royal Society and Hobbism
- voluntarism and natural philosophy
- "De Legibus Naturae" - II
- "De Legibus Naturae" and the natural-law tradition
- conclusion - taming the leviathan.
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