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The 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 Edited by Knud Haakonssen Department of Philosophy, Boston University Ash gate DARTMOUTH Aldershot • Brookfield USA • Singapore • Sydney © Knud Haakonssen 1999. For copyright of individual articles please refer to the Acknowledgements. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior pennission of the publisher. Published by Dartmouth Publishing Company Limited Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hants GUI l 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Old Post Road Brookfield Vermont05036 USA British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Grotius, Pufendorf and modern natural law. - (The international library of critical essays in the history of philosophy) I. Natural law I. Haakonssen, Knud 171.2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-73245 ISBN I 85521 985 9 Printed and bound by Athenaeum Press, Ltd .. Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. 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 Acknowledgements The editor and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material. Blackwell Publishers for the essay: Andrew S. 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