Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ian Hunter, David Saunders

      Pages 1-10

3. Natural Law and Civil Authority

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. The Rule of the State and Natural Law

      • Blandine Kriegel

      Pages 13-26

   3. The Moral Conservatism of Natural Rights

      • Knud Haakonssen

      Pages 27-42

   4. Pufendorf’s Doctrine of Sovereignty and its Natural Law Foundations

      • Thomas Behme

      Pages 43-58

4. The Struggle over Church and State

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Natura naturans: Natural Law and the Sovereign in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes

      • Conal Condren

      Pages 61-75

   3. Probability, Punishments and Property: Richard Cumberland’s Sceptical Science of Sovereignty

      • Jon Parkin

      Pages 76-90

   4. The Prince and the Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius

      • Thomas Ahnert

      Pages 91-105

5. Natural Law and the Limits of Sovereignty

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Civil Sovereigns and the King of Kings: Barbeyrac on the Creator’s Right to Rule

      • Petter Korkman

      Pages 109-122

   3. Sovereignty and Resistance: The Development of the Right of Resistance in German Natural Law

      • Frank Grunert

      Pages 123-138

   4. From the Virtue of Justice to the Concept of Legal Order: The Significance of the suum cuique tribuere in Hobbes’ Political Philosophy

      • Dieter Hüning

      Pages 139-152

6. Natural Law and Sovereignty in Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Natural Law and the Construction of Political Sovereignty in Scotland, 1660–1690

      • Clare Jackson

      Pages 155-169

   3. Self-Defence in Statutory and Natural Law: The Reception of German Political Thought in Britain

      • Robert von Friedeburg

      Pages 170-186

7. Early Modern Thought and Modern Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Hobbes and Pufendorf on Natural Equality and Civil Sovereignty

      • Kari Saastamoinen

      Pages 189-203

   3. Natural Law, Sovereignty and International Law: A Comparative Perspective

      • Peter Schröder

      Pages 204-218

In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.

• Church and State
• cognition
• conflict
• development
• natural law
• political thought
• politics
• property
• punishment
• quality
• research
• state
• Thomas Hobbes

'Undoubtedly this collection marks an important step in the historization of the history of political thought on natural law...' - Wolfgang E.J Weber, History of Poltical Thought

• Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

  Ian Hunter

• Faculty of Arts, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

  David Saunders

THOMAS AHNERT Reader of History, St John's College, Cambridge THOMAS BEHME Professor of Philosophy, Freie University, Berlin CONAL CONDREN Professor of Political Science and Director of Humanities Research Programme, University of New South Wales, Australia ROBERT VON FRIEDEBURG Lecturer, Department of History, University of Bielefeld FRANK GRUNERT Research Assistant, University of Basel KNUD HAAKONSSEN Professor of Philosophy, Boston University DIETER HÜNING Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University, Berlin DUNCAN IVISON Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney CLARE JACKSON Assistant Lecturer, Department of History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge PETTER KORKMAN Philosopher BLANDINE KRIEGEL Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris X (Nan terre) JON PARKIN Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York KARI SAASTAMOINEN Research Fellow, Academy of Finland PETER SCHRÖDER Lecturer, University College, London MICHAEL J. SEIDLER Professor of Philosophy, Western Kentucky University, USA

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