Montesquieu and the Philosophy of Natural Law
In the last hundred years, the philosophy of natural law has suffered a fate that could hardly have been envisaged by the seventeenth and eighteenth century exponents of its universality and eternity: it has become old-fashioned. The positivists and the Marxists were happy to throw eternal moral it...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1970, 1970
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1970 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1: Introduction to Natural Law and to the Work of Montesquieu
- I: The History of Natural Law
- II: Montesquieu’s Life and Works
- III: The Problem of Montesquieu and Natural Law
- 2: The Originality of Montesquieu’s Method
- I: The Problem of Montesquieu’s Method
- II: The Prior Existence of Natural Law
- III: Civil Law and Natural Law in the Esprit des lois
- 3: Montesquieu and Empiricism in Natural Law
- I: Physical and Moral Concepts in Natural Law
- II: The Example of the Animals
- 4: The State of Nature and the Origin of Society
- I: Montesquieu and the State of Nature
- II: The Origin of Society
- III: The Historicity of the State of Nature
- IV: The Original Contract and its Implications
- 5: Montesquieu and Empiricism in Positive Law: The Diversity of Governments and Laws
- I: The Diversity of Governments
- II: The Diversity of Civil Law
- 6: Rationalism in Positive Law: Montesquieu the Reformer
- I: The Criminal Law
- II: Slavery
- III: Property
- IV: International Relations
- 7: Montesquieu’s Conception of Law
- I: Montesquieu’s Conception of God
- II: Montesquieu and the Laws of Science
- III: Montesquieu and the Moral Law
- Conclusion