The necessity of nature God, science and money in 17th century English law of nature
To understand our current world crises, it is essential to study the origins of the systems and institutions we now take for granted. This book takes a novel approach to charting intellectual, scientific and philosophical histories alongside the development of the international legal order by studyi...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- A Christian science : searching for the common good and the public good
- Hobbes's doctrine of necessity
- Necessities, natural rights and sovereignty in Leviathan
- Reformers on the necessary knowledge
- Necessity, free will and conscience : Robert Sanderson
- The grand business of nature
- Robert Boyle, the empire over nature
- Locke's early writings
- Medicine, oeconomy and needs
- Money and the doctrine of necessities
- The scientification of money
- The doctrine of necessities and the (public) good
- Conclusions