Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence (Natural Law and Enlightment Classics) - Hardcover

Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence (Natural Law and Enlightment Classics). Edited and with an Introductin by Thomas Behme.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XXII, 425 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The appearance in 1660 of Samuel Pufendorf s earliest work, Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence, inaugurated the modern natural-law movement in the German-speaking world. It also established Pufendorf as a major figure in natural law and laid the foundation for his later works, which were to sweep across Europe and North America. -- The Elements presents a "geometric" system of natural law. Book one is divided into definitions of basic moral and legal concepts and into principles, both rational and experimental, from which propositions about specific matters and their relations are derived by syllogism. Book two is concerned with formal requirements of morality and with the material content of natural law, such as liberty of the will and the natural sociability of man. Pufendorf also discusses international law, in particular freedom of the seas, a topic of pressing interest to his contemporaries. He bases his arguments for limits to the state s role in human life upon principles of public policy, in contrast to rights-based theories, which consider natural rights as liberties and political government as justified by its protection of such rights. -- The Liberty Fund edition is a revised and corrected edition of William Abbott Old-father s translation from 1931. Technical terms have been standardized to their proper English equivalents, and new annotations identify allusions and references. A bibliography provides modern editions of sources referred to in the text. Editor Thomas Behme notes that the Elements "offers a compact and readable introduction to Pufendorfs legal and political thought. -- Born in Saxony, Samuel Pufendorf (1632- 1694) held the first professorship in the Protestant world dedicated to natural law, at the University of Heidelberg. He spent much of his career (1670-88) in the sendee of the Swedish king, first as professor of the law of nature and nations at the new University of Lund, then as privy councilor, secretary of state, and royal historiographer. He ended his career as privy councilor and royal historiographer to the king of Prussia (1688-94). He was one °f the most important philosophical lawyers, historians, and theorists of the constitution of state and church in the early-modern period. ISBN 9780865976191 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 855 16,5 x 3,2 x 23,5 cm, Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1194256

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