Early Modern Natural Law Theories : Contexts and Strategies in the Early Enlightenment / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…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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