Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment

Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment
Title Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author T. J. Hochstrasser
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 270
Release 2000-09-14
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1139435302

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This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. Hochstrasser investigates the influence exercised by theories of natural law from Grotius to Kant, with a comparative analysis of the important intellectual innovations in ethics and political philosophy of the time. Hochstrasser includes the writings of Samuel Pufendorf and his followers who evolved a natural law theory based on human sociability and reason, fostering a new methodology in German philosophy. This book assesses the first histories of political thought since ancient times, giving insights into the nature and influence of debate within eighteenth-century natural jurisprudence. Ambitious in range and conceptually sophisticated, Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment will be of great interest to scholars in history, political thought, law and philosophy.

Early Modern Natural Law Theories

Early Modern Natural Law Theories
Title Early Modern Natural Law Theories PDF eBook
Author T. Hochstrasser
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 364
Release 2003-10-31
Genre History
ISBN 1402015690

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This collection 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. It reassesses the work of major thinkers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Malebranche, Pufendorf and Thomasius, and evaluates the appeal and importance of the discourse of natural jurisprudence both to those working inside conventional educational and political structures and to those outside.

Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment

Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment
Title Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author Jon Parkin
Publisher OUP/British Academy
Pages 0
Release 2013-05-30
Genre History
ISBN 9780197265406

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This book looks at the development of the idea of toleration into something like its modern shape in the early enlightenment period and its consequences on the ways in which states treat religion. Essays discuss a range of thinkers and challenge both their image and that of the early enlightenment as the seedbed of liberal modernity.

Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition

Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition
Title Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition PDF eBook
Author Peter Langford
Publisher BRILL
Pages 555
Release 2019-03-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9004390391

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Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen’s critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition. This edited collection commences with a comprehensive introduction which establishes the character of Kelsen’s critical engagement as a general critique of natural law combined with a more specific critique of representative thinkers of the Natural Law Tradition. The subsequent chapters are then devoted to a detailed analysis of Kelsen’s engagement with prominent theorists from the Natural Law Tradition. The volume concludes with an exploration, focusing upon the delineation of a non-positivist legal theory in the debate between Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz, of the continued presence of Kelsenian legal positivism in contemporary legal theory.

The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe

The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
Title The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe PDF eBook
Author Anthony Pagden
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 380
Release 1987
Genre History
ISBN 9780521386661

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Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.

The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment
Title The Enlightenment PDF eBook
Author John Robertson
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 169
Release 2015
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 0199591784

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This introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and political justice.

The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History
Title The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History PDF eBook
Author Heikki Pihlajamäki
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 1217
Release 2018-06-28
Genre Law
ISBN 0191088374

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European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.