Author: RICHARD CUMBERLAND, JOHN MAXWELL, JON PARKIN
Title: A Treatise Of The Laws Of Nature
Description: Liberty Fund. Paperback. Pp: 1009. A Treatise of the Laws of Nature, originally titled De Legibus Naturae, first appeared in 1672 as a theoretical response to a range of issues that came together during the late 1660s. It conveyed a conviction that science might offer an effective means of demonstrating both the contents and the obligatory force of the law of nature. At a time when Hobbes`s work appeared to suggest that the application of science undermined rather than supported the idea of obligatory natural law, Cumberland`s De Legibus Naturae provided a scientific explanation of the natural necessity of altruism.nThrough his argument for a moral obligation to natural law, Cumberland made a critical intervention in the early debate over the role of natural jurisprudence at a moment when the natural law project was widely suspected of heterodoxy and incoherence. ISBN: 9780865974739. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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