Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Context and Strategies in the Early Enlightenment

Acknowledgements. Introduction; T. Hochstrasser, P. Schröder. Before and after Natural Law: Models of Natural Law in Ancient and Modern Times; M. Scattola. Taming The Leviathan - Reading Hobbes In Seventeenth-century Europe; J. Parkin. Malebranche and Natural Law; P. Riley. The Reception of Hugo Grotius's De Jure Belli Ac Pacis in the Early German Enlightenment; F. Grunert. Revolution Principles, Ius Naturae, and Ius Gentium in Early-Enlightenment Scotland: The Contribution of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen (c.1660-1726); C. Jackson. Natural Jurisprudence, Argument from History and Constitutional Struggle in the Early Enlightenment: The Case of Gottlieb Samuel Treuer's Polemic against Absolutism In 1719; R. von Friedeburg. The Love of a Sage or the Command of a Superior: The Natural Law Doctrines of Leibniz and Pufendorf; I. Hunter. Voluntarism and Moral Obligation: Barbeyrac's Defence of Pufendorf Revisited; P. Korkman. The Politics of Self-Preservation: Toleration and Identity in Pufendorf and Locke; M.J. Seidier. De Sympathia et Antipathia Rerum: Natural Law, Religion and the Rejection of Mechanistic Science in the Works of Christian Thomasius; T. Ahnert. 'Decorum' and 'Politesse': Thomasius's Theory of Civilised Society in Comparative Perspective; S. Zurbuchen. Natural Law and Enlightenment in France and Scotland - A Comparative Perspective; P. Schröder. Notes on Contributors. Index.