Leibniz : political writings / translated and edited with an introduction and notes by Patrick Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Contributor:

Riley, Patrick, 1941-

Series:

Cambridge texts in the history of political thought

Standardized Title:

Prose works. Selections. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Physical Description:

xi, 249 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

Leibniz's political and ethical writing long has been neglected, and with this new edition Professor Riley makes available the most representative pieces from Leibniz's political theory. This new edition, specially prepared for this series, is the first to make a considerable number of Leibniz's writings available in English, and includes three previously unpublished manuscripts, a selection of political letters, an introduction, notes, and a critical biography.

Contents:

Part I On Justice and Natural Law

1 Meditation on the common concept of justice (c. 1702-3)

2 Opinion on the principles of Pufendorf (1706)

Part II On Social Life, Enlightenment and the Rule of Princes

3 On natural law

4 Notes on social life

5 Felicity (c. 1694-8?)

6 Portrait of the prince (1679)

7 Memoir for enlightened persons of good intention (mid-1690s)

Part IIII On State-Sovereignty and Hobbesian Ideas

8 Caesarinus Fürstenerius (De Suprematu Principium Germaniae) (1677)

Part IV On the Defense of Hapsburg Europe against France

9 Mars Christianissumus (most Christian war-god) (1683)

10 Manifesto for the defense of the Rights of Charles III (1703)

Part V On International Relations and International Law

11 Codex Iuris Gentium (Prefatio) (1693)

12 On the works of the Abbé de St Pierre (1715), observations on the Abbé's Project for Perpetual Peace (1715), Letter II to Grimarest (1712)

Part VI Political Letters

13 Excerpts from letters to Landgraf Ernst of Hesse-Rheinfels , Bousset and Thomas Burnett, two letters to Landgraf Ernst of Hesse-Rheinfels (1683-91), two letters to Bousset concerning the reunification of Christendom (1692-9), three letters to Thomas Burnett (1699-1712)

14 Judgement of the works of the Earl of Shaftesbury (1712)

Part VII Sovereignty and Dignity: Unpublished Manuscripts, 1695-1714

15 An unpublished manuscript of Leibniz on the allegiance due to sovereign powers (1695)

16 Leibniz' unpublished remarks on Abbé Bucquoi: divinity and sovereignty (1711)

17 An unpublished lecture by Leibniz on the Greeks as founders of rational theology: its relation to his 'Universal Jurisprudence' (1714).

Notes:

Translations from Latin, French, and German.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 241-246.

ISBN:

0521353807

052135899X

OCLC:

17227869