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Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence

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Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence was Pufendorf’s first work, published in 1660. Its appearance effectively inaugurated the modern natural-law movement in the German-speaking world, establishing Pufendorf as a key figure and laying the foundations for his later major works.Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694) taught natural law and was court historian in both Germany and Sweden.Thomas Behme is a member of the faculty at the Institute for Philosophy, Free University of Berlin. Please...

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Education for Life

Education for Life

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George Turnbull belongs with a group of early Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, who found their native Calvinism too repressive. They sought to relocate religion within a context of reason and science and to establish a tolerant and humane ethic upon values rooted in classical ideals.In a distinctive voice, Turnbull presented natural-law theory “scientifically,” harnessed the arts to promote moral and civil virtue, and extolled reason as the foundation of liberty. The...

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Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural...

Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind

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Until the publication of this Liberty Fund edition, all but one of the works contained in Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind were available only in Latin. This milestone English translation will provide a general audience with insight into Hutcheson’s thought.Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729.James Moore is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in...

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Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Com...

Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

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In this new, dual-language edition, Hutcheson’s Latin Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is presented on facing pages with its English translation, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, together with all the relevant alterations of the 1745 edition relating to the 1742 edition of the Institutio, including all the omissions and additions by the translator in the Short Introduction.Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of...

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The Constitution of England

Jean Louis de Lolme

The Constitution of England

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Jean Louis de Lolme

An Inquiry into the Original of Our...

An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

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Francis Hutcheson’s first book, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his lifetime. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment is now available for the first time in a variorum edition based on the 1726 edition.The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It...

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The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenant...

The Divine Feudal Law: Or, Covenants with Mankind, Represented

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The Divine Feudal Law sets forth Pufendorf’s basis for the reunion of the Lutheran and Calvinist confessions. This attempt to seek a “conciliation” between the confessions complements the concept of toleration discussed in Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society.Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694) taught natural law and was court historian in both Germany and Sweden.Simone Zurbuchen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Please note:...

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Selections from Three Works

Francisco Suárez

Selections from Three Works

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Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) was the greatest metaphysician and moral theorist of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholasticism. Suárez is of particular importance as a theorist of natural law and of rights, for his work combines expertise in moral theory with a mastery of civil and ecclesiastical jurisprudence and a sophisticated theory of the human person.The bulk of the selections in this volume are from A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver (1612), “one of the major works of scholastic...

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Francisco Suárez

The Law of Nations Treated Accordin...

Christian von Wolff

The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method

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Christian Wolff’s The Law of Nations is a cornerstone of eighteenth-century thought. A treatise on the philosophy of human action, on the foundations of political communities, and on international law, it influenced philosophers throughout the eighteenth-century Enlightenment world. According to Knud Haakonssen, general editor of the Natural Law and Enlightenment series, “before Kant’s critical philosophy, Wolff was without comparison the most influential German thinker for several decades as...

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Christian von Wolff

The Principles of Natural and Polit...

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

The Principles of Natural and Politic Law

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Born in 1694, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui helped transform the modern tradition of natural law and convey it to new generations.Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694–1748) was a Swiss jurist.Petter Korkman is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the Academy of Finland. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

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Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

Observations upon Liberal Education

Observations upon Liberal Education

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Originally published in 1742, Observations upon Liberal Education is a significant contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment and the moral-sense school of Scottish philosophy.In Observations, Turnbull applies the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment to the education of youth. He shows how a liberal education fosters true “inward liberty” and moral strength and thus prepares us for responsible and happy lives in a free society.George Turnbull (1698–1748) taught at Marischal College,...

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An Elegant and Learned Discourse of...

Nathaniel Culverwell

An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

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An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature is a concerted effort at intellectual mediation in the deep religious dispute of the English civil war in the seventeenth century. On one side was the antinomian assertion of extreme Calvinists that the elect were redeemed by God’s free grace and thereby free from ordinary moral obligations. Opposite to that was the Arminian rejection of predestination and assertion that Christ died for all, not just for the elect.Robert A. Greene is...

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Nathaniel Culverwell

Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writin...

James Mackintosh

Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution

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Vindiciae Gallicae was James Mackintosh’s first major publication, a contribution to the debate begun by Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. The success of Mackintosh’s defense of the French Revolution propelled him into the heart of London Whig circles. Following the September 1792 massacres Mackintosh, along with other moderate Whigs, revised his opinions and moved closer to Burke’s position. The Liberty Fund edition also includes Mackintosh’s Discourse on the Law of Nature...

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James Mackintosh

Essays on Church, State, and Politi...

Christian Thomasius

Essays on Church, State, and Politics

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The works found in Essays on Church, State, and Politics, which originated as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority.Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a German philosopher and legal theorist.Ian Hunter is Australian Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the...

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Christian Thomasius

Principles of Equity

Principles of Equity

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Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete “Enlightenment man,” concerned with the full spectrum of human knowleEAe and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a juEAe on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive contributions through his works on the nature of law and legal development.Principles of Equity, first published in 1760, is considered his most lasting contribution to jurisprudence and is still cited. In his jurisprudence, Kames...

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The Rights of War and Peace

Hugo Grotius

The Rights of War and Peace

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Hugo Grotius

On Temporal and Spiritual Authority

Robert Bellarmine

On Temporal and Spiritual Authority

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Robert Bellarmine was one of the most original and influential political theorists of his time. His writings present coherent definitions of the nature and aim of temporal authority and its relationship to spiritual authority.This fresh translation will be interesting to a wide readership of both scholars of political thought and the educated general public.Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) was a Jesuit cardinal.Stefania Tutino is a Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of...

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Robert Bellarmine

Historical Law-Tracts

Historical Law-Tracts

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Historical Law-Tracts is one of the earliest contributions to the Scottish Enlightenment project of a historical science of society. Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782), was an influential Scottish juEAe, a prolific man of letters, and one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in Scotland, and his goal in this work is to show the study of law as a genuinely scientific inquiry and not a mere collection of facts for the lawyer to memorize. He deployed a large range of ancient, medieval, and...

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Of the Nature and Qualification of...

Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society

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Samuel Pufendorf’s Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion (published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of politics and religion. Written in response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the French king Louis XIV, Pufendorf contests the right of the sovereign to control the religion of his subjects, because state and religion pursue wholly different ends. He concludes that, when rulers transgress their bounds, subjects have a right to defend their religion, even by...

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The Elements of Moral Philosophy, w...

David Fordyce

The Elements of Moral Philosophy, with A Brief Account of the Nature, Progress, and Origin of Philosophy

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Though little known today, David Fordyce was an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and closely associated with liberal Dissenters in England. His Elements of Moral Philosophy was a notable contribution to the curriculum in moral philosophy and one of the most widely circulated texts in moral philosophy in the second half of the eighteenth century.Thomas D. Kennedy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for...

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David Fordyce

Elements of Criticism

Elements of Criticism

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Elements of Criticism is Kames’s most influential work. When it first appeared, in 1762, it was the most comprehensive philosophical work on “criticism” in English, and it was published in five editions during Kames’s lifetime and another forty editions over the next century. In America, Elements of Criticism served as a standard text for college students of English.Liberty Fund’s edition of Elements of Criticism is the first modern edition of one of Kames’s most influential works. In Elements,...

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