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Natural law theories in the early Enlightenment /

"In this study T.J. Hochstrasser analyses and explains the development of natural law theories in Germany between Grotius and Kant. Particular attention is paid to Samuel Pufendorf and his followers, who incorporated many of the key theoretical insights of Thomas Hobbes into German political th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hochstrasser, T. J. (Tim J.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 58.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: natural law and its history in the early Enlightenment
  • 2. Socialitas and the history of natural law: Pufendorf's defence of De Jure Naturae et Gentium
  • 3. Voluntarism and moral epistemology: a comparison of Leibniz and Pufendorf
  • 4. Christian Thomasius and the development of Pufendorf's natural jurisprudence
  • 5. Natural law theory and its historiography in the era of Christian Wolff
  • 6. Conclusion: the end of the 'history of morality' in Germany.