ISBN:
9789401703918
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (364 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 186
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 186
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Keywords:
Humanities
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Philosophy.
;
Ontology
;
History
;
Political science.
;
Philosophy—History.
Abstract:
The study of natural law theories is presently one of the most fruitful areas of research in the studies of early modern intellectual history, and moral and political theory. Likewise the historical significance of the Enlightenment for the development of `modernisation' in many different forms continues to be the subject of controversy. This collection therefore 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. The works of major thinkers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Malebranche, Pufendorf and Thomasius are reassessed, and the appeal and importance of the discourse of natural jurisprudence both to those working inside conventional educational and political structures and to those outside - such as in the Huguenot diaspora - is evaluated. This volume will therefore be of importance to all those readers concerned to study the character of the debates in the period 1650-1750 surrounding moral and political agency, sovereignty and obligation, and the legitimation of religious toleration in the divergent states and patriotic contexts of Europe
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-017-0391-8
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