Natural law theories in the early Enlightenment /

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hochstrasser, T. J. (Tim J.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Ideas in context ; 58.
Subjects:
Natural law > History.
Enlightenment.
Natural law.
Law > Philosophy.
Ethics
Droit naturel.
Droit > Philosophie.
Droit naturel > Histoire.
Siècle des Lumières.
LAW > Natural Law.
Natuurrecht.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Naturrecht > Deutschland > Geschichte 17. Jh.
Naturrecht > Deutschland > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Naturrecht > Philosophie > Geschichte > 1650-1750.
Deutschland > Naturrecht > Philosophie > Geschichte > 1650-1750.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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