Table Of ContentThe International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy
Series Editor: Tom Campbell
Titles in the Series:
Hume - Moral and Political Phllosophy
Rachel Cohon
Adam Smith
Knud Haakonssen
Grotlus, Pufendorf and Modern Natural Law
Knud Haakonssen
Kant, Vols I & II
Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn
Hegel, Vols I & II
David Lamb
Marx
Scott Meikle
Locke's Moral, Political and Legal Phllosophy
John R. Milwn
Hume - General Phllosophy
David Owen
Bentham
Gerald Postema
Hobbes
Robert Shaver
Descartes
Tom Sorell
Mill's Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy
Chin Liew Ten
Leibniz
Catherine Wilson
Rousseau
Robert Wokler
Grotius, Pufe ndorf and
Modern Natural Law
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Knud Haakonssen
Department of Philosophy, Boston University
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Series Preface xi
Introduction xiii
PART I HUGO GROTIUS
M.B. Crowe (1976), 'The "Impious Hypothesis": A Paradox in Hugo Grotius?',
Tzjdschrift voor Filosofie, 38, pp. 379-410. 3
2 Knud Haakonssen ( 1985), 'Hugo Grotius and the History of Political Thought',
Political Theory, 13, pp. 239-65. 35
3 Robert Shaver (1996), 'Grotius on Scepticism and Self-Interest', Archiv fur
Geschichte der Philosophie, 78, pp. 27-47. 63
4 Richard Tuck (1983), 'Grotius, Cameades and Hobbes', Grotiana, N.S., 4,
pp. 43-62. 85
PART II JOHN SELDEN
5 Michael Bertram Crowe (1977), 'An Eccentric Seventeenth-Century Witness to
the Natura!Law: John Selden (1584-1654)', Natural Law Forum, 12, pp. 184-95. 107
6 J.P. Sommerville (1984), 'John Selden, the Law of Nature, and the Origins of
Government', The Historical Journal, 21, pp. 437-47. 119
PART III SAMUEL VON PUFENDORF
7 Craig L. Carr and Michael J. Seidler (1996), 'Pufendorf, Sociality and the
Modem State', History of Political Thought, 17, pp. 354-78. 133
8 Thomas Mautner ( 1989), 'Pufendorf and the Correlativity Theory of Rights', in
Sten Lindstrom and Wlodzimierz Rabinowicz (eds), In so Many Words:
Philosophical Essays Dedicated to Sven Danielson on the Occasion of His Fiftieth
Birthday, Philosophical Studies published by the Philosophical Society and the
Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, no. 42, pp. 37-59. 159
9 Michael Nutkiewicz (1983), 'Samuel Pufendorf: Obligation as the Basis of the
State', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 21, pp. 15-29. 183
10 J.B. Schneewind (1987), 'Pufendorf's Place in the History of Ethics', Synthese,
72, pp. 123-55. 199
vi Grotius, Pufendorf and Modem Natural Law
PART IV GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ
11 Robert J. Mulvaney (1968), 'The Early Development of Leibniz's Concept of
Justice', Journal of the History of Ideas, 29, pp. 53-72. 235
12 Robert J. Mulvaney (1975), 'Divine Justice in Leibniz's "Discourse on
Metaphysics"', Studia Leibnitiana, Supplement 14, pp. 61-82. 255
PART V RICHARD CUMBERLAND
13 Murray Forsyth (1982), 'The Place of Richard Cumberland in the History of
Natural Law Doctrine', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 20, pp. 23-42. 279
14 J.B. Schneewind (1995), 'Voluntarism and the Origins of Utilitarianism',
Utilitas, 1, pp. 87-96. 299
.P ART VI CHRISTIAN THOMASIUS
15 F.M. Barnard (1971), 'The "Practical Philosophy" of Christian Thomasius',
Journal of the History of Ideas, 32, pp. 221-46. 311
16 Frederick M. Barnard (1988), 'Fraternity and Citizenship: Two Ethics of
Mutuality in Christian Thomasius', Review of Politics, 50, pp. 582-602. 337
17 Robert Spaethling (1971), 'On Christian Thomasius and his Alleged Offspring:
The German Enlightenment', Lessing Yearbook, 3, pp. 194-213. 359
PART VII JEAN BARBEYRAC
18 Tim Hochstrasser (1993), 'Conscience and Reason: The Natural Law Theory of
Jean Barbeyrac', The Historical Journal, 36, pp. 289-308. 381
PART VIII EMER DE VATTEL
19 Frederick G. Whelan (1988), 'Vattel's Doctrine of the State', History of Political
Thought, 9, pp. 59-90. 403
PART IX JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
20 Robert Wokler (1994), 'Rousseau's Pufendorf: Natural Law and the Foundations
of Commercial Society', History of Political Thought, 15, pp. 373-402. 437
Grotius, Pufendorf and Modem Natural Law vii
PART X IMMANUEL KANT
21 J.B. Schneewind (1993), 'Kant and Natural Law Ethics', Ethics, 104, pp. 53-74. 469
PART XI USES OF NATURAL LAW
22 Anthony Burns (1984), 'The Source of the Encyclopedie Article "Loi Naturelle
(Morale)"', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1, pp. 39-48. 493
23 Diethelm Klippel (1994), 'Johann August Schlettwein and the Economic Faculty
at the University of GieBen', History of Political Thought, 15, pp. 203-27. 503
24 Andrew S. Skinner (1995), 'Pufendorf, Hutcheson and Adam Smith: Some
Principles of Political Economy', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 42,
pp. 1-29. 529
25 Ursula Vogel (1991), 'Political Philosophers and the Trouble with Polygamy:
Patriarchal Reasoning in Modem Natural Law', History of Political Thought,
12,pp.229-51. 559
Name Index 583
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