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Author : Benjamin Straumann
Release : 2015-02-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Roman Law in the State of Nature by : Benjamin Straumann
Download or read book Roman Law in the State of Nature written by Benjamin Straumann. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.
Author : Benjamin Straumann
Release : 2015-02-12
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Roman Law in the State of Nature by : Benjamin Straumann
Download or read book Roman Law in the State of Nature written by Benjamin Straumann. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.
Author : Perez Zagorin
Release : 2009-12-06
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hobbes and the Law of Nature by : Perez Zagorin
Download or read book Hobbes and the Law of Nature written by Perez Zagorin. This book was released on 2009-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law."--Pub. desc.
Author : Bart Wauters
Release : 2017-04-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The History of Law in Europe by : Bart Wauters
Download or read book The History of Law in Europe written by Bart Wauters. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Author : Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Release : 1703
Genre : International law
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Book Synopsis Of the Law of Nature and Nations by : Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Download or read book Of the Law of Nature and Nations written by Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf. This book was released on 1703. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1662 Pufendorf was appointed to the first modern professorship in natural law (at the University of Heidelberg). In 1670 he became professor of natural law at the University of Lund in Sweden. First published in 1672, this is his principle work and a landmark in the history of natural and international law. Beginning with a consideration of fundamental legal ideas and their various divisions, Pufendorf proceeded to a discussion of the validity of customs, the doctrines of necessity and innate human reason. The work is significant in part because it developed principles introduced by Grotius and Hobbes. Unlike Hobbes, Pufendorf argued that peace, not war, was the state of nature, and he proposed that international law was not restricted to Christendom." -- Lawbook Exchange.
