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1 online resource. |
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Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas,
0066-6610 ;
186
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Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas ; 186.
0066-6610
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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. Likewise the historical significance of the Enlightenment for the development of ̀modernisation' in many different forms continues to be the subject of controversy. This collection therefore offers a timely opportunity to re-examine both the coherence of the concept of an ̀early Enlightenment', and the specific contribution of natural law theories to its formation. The works of major thinkers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Malebranche, Pufendorf and Thomasius are reassessed, and the appeal and importance of the discourse of natural jurisprudence both to those working inside conventional educational and political structures and to those outside - such as in the Huguenot diaspora - is evaluated. This volume will therefore be of importance to all those readers concerned to study the character of the debates in the period 1650-1750 surrounding moral and political agency, sovereignty and obligation, and the legitimation of religious toleration in the divergent states and patriotic contexts of Europe. |
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Before and after Natural Law: Models of Natural Law in Ancient and Modern Times -- Taming the Leviathan -- Reading Hobbes in Seventeenth-Century Europe -- Malebranche and Natural Law -- The Reception of Hugo Grotius's De Jure Belli AC Pacis in the Early German Enlightenment -- Revolution Principles, IUS Naturae, and IUS Gentium in Early-Enlightenment Scotland: The Contribution of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (C.1660-1726) -- Natural Jurisprudence, Argument from History and Constitutional Struggle in the Early Enlightenment: The Case of Gottlieb Samuel Treuer's Polemic Against Absolutism in 1719 -- The Love of a Sage or the Command of a Superior: The Natural Law Doctrines of Leibniz and Pufendorf -- Voluntarism and Moral Obligation: Barbeyrac's Defence of Pufendorf Revisited -- The Politics of Self-Preservation: Toleration and Identity in Pufendorf and Locke -- De Sympathia et Antipathia Rerum: Natural Law, Religion and the Rejection of Mechanistic Science in the Works of Christian Thomasius -- 'Decorum' and 'Politesse': Thomasius's Theory of Civilised Society in Comparative Perspective -- Natural Law and Enlightenment in France and Scotland -- A Comparative Perspective -- Notes onContributors. |
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Humanities.
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Humanities. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Ontology.
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Ontology. |
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History.
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ontology (metaphysics) |
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History. |
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history (discipline) |
| Added Author |
Schröder, Peter, 1965- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789048164035 |
| ISBN |
9401703914 |
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9789048164035 (print) |
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9048164036 (print) |
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9789401703918 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-94-017-0391-8 |
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