Roman law in the state of nature : the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law
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Roman law in the state of nature : the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law
（Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 108）
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index
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Description
Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Natural law in historical context
- 2. A novel doctrine of the sources of law: nature and the classics
- 3. Proving natural law: the influence of classical rhetoric on Grotius' method
- 4. Social instinct or self-preservation?
- 5. Justice for the state of nature: from Aristotle to the Corpus Iuris
- 6. Grotius' concept of the state of nature
- 7. Natural rights: Roman remedies in the state of nature
- 8. Natural rights and just wars
- 9. Enforcing natural law: the right to punish
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
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