The principles of natural and politic law / Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui ; translated by Thomas Nugent ; edited and with an introduction by Petter Korkman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burlamaqui, J. J. (Jean Jacques), 1694-1748.

Contributor:

Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.

Korkman, Petter.

Series:

Natural Law Paper

Natural law and enlightenment classics

Standardized Title:

Principes du droit naturel et politique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law--Early works to 1800.

Natural law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Fund, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The year 1694 saw the death of Samuel Pufendorf, who, with Hugo Grotius, was the foremost representative of the modern tradition of natural law theory, and the birth of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, who helped transform the tradition and convey it to new generations. As professor of natural law in Geneva, Burlamaqui used Pufendorf's works on natural law but taught and wrote on the subject in the vernacular, not in the traditional university Latin. By making natural jurisprudence more accessible, Burlamaqui helped make it part of civic education. Burlamaqui intended his writings to defend a middle road between the two main rival traditions in early modern natural law theory, that deriving from Leibniz and Wolff and that from Pufendorf and Barbeyrac. In fact, he seems closer to the former. The basis of this version of "The Principles of Natural and Politic Law" is Thomas Nugent's 1763 English translation, which became a standard textbook at Cambridge and at many premier American colleges, including Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. The first scholarly work on Burlamaqui was written by an American, M. Ray Forrest Harvey, who in 1937 argued that Burlamaqui was well known among America's Founding Fathers and that his writings exerted considerable influence upon the American constitutional system. In his introduction, Nugent said of Burlamaqui: "His singular beauty consists in the alliance he so carefully points out between ethics and jurisprudence, religion and politics, after the example of Plato and Tully, and the other illustrious masters of antiquity." Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694-1748) was a Swiss jurist. His chief works are "Principes du droit naturel (Principles of Natural Law) "(1747) and "Principes du droit politique (Principles of Political Law) "(1751). Petter Korkman is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the Academy of Finland. Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.

Contents:

""Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, The Principles of Natural and Politic Law ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction, p. ix ""; ""Acknowledgments, p. xxi ""; ""Volume I. The Principles of Natural Law ""; ""Original Title Page, p. 1 ""; ""To Dr. Mead, p. 3 ""; ""The Translator to the Reader, p. 5 ""; ""Original Table of Contents, p. 9 ""; ""Part I. General Principles of Right, p. 31 ""; ""Chapter I. Of the nature of man considered with regard to right: of the understanding, and whatever is relative to this faculty, p. 31 ""

""Chapter II. Continuation of the principles relative to the nature of man. Of will and liberty, p. 40 """"Chapter III. That man thus constituted, is a creature capable of moral direction, and accountable for his actions, p. 55 ""; ""Chapter IV. Further inquiry into what relates to human nature, by considering the different states of man, p. 57 ""; ""Chapter V. That man ought to square his conduct by rule; the method of finding out this rule; and the foundations of right in general, p. 64 ""

""Chapter VI. General rules of conduct prescribed by reason. Of the nature and first foundation of obligation, p. 70 """"Chapter VII. Of right considered as a faculty, and of the obligation thereto corresponding, p. 81 ""; ""Chapter VIII. Of Law in general, p. 87 ""; ""Chapter IX. Of the foundation of sovereignty, or the right of commanding, p. 92 ""; ""Chapter X. Of the end of laws; of their character, difference, &C., p. 104 ""; ""Chapter XI. Of the morality of human actions, p. 113 ""; ""Part II. Of the Law of Nature ""

""Chapter I. In what the law of nature consists, and that there is such a thing. First considerations drawn from the existence of God and his authority over us, p. 123 """"Chapter II. That God, in consequence of his authority over us, has actually thought proper to prescribe to us lawas or rules of conduct, p. 132 ""; ""Chapter III. Of the means by which we discern what is just and unjust, or what is dictated by natural law; namely, I. moral instinct, and 2. reason, p. 138 ""; ""Chapter IV. Of the principles from whence reason may deduce the law of nature, p. 144 ""

""Chapter V. That natural laws have been sufficiently notified of their proper characteristics, the obligation they produce, &c., p. 164 ""; ""Chapter VI. Of the law of nations, p. 172 ""; ""Chapter VII. Whether there is any morality of actions, any obligation or duty, antecedent to the law of nature, and independent of the idea of a legislator, p. 179 ""; ""Chapter VIII. Consequences of the preceding chapter: reflections on the distinctions of just, honest, and useful, p. 192 ""; ""Chapter IX. Of the application of natural laws to human actions; and first of conscience, p. 196 ""

""Chapter X. Of the merit and demerit of human actions

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61487-784-X