Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty

In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.

'Undoubtedly this collection marks an important step in the historization of the history of political thought on natural law...' - Wolfgang E.J Weber, History of Poltical Thought

Autorentext
THOMAS AHNERT Reader of History, St John's College, Cambridge THOMAS BEHME Professor of Philosophy, Freie University, Berlin CONAL CONDREN Professor of Political Science and Director of Humanities Research Programme, University of New South Wales, Australia ROBERT VON FRIEDEBURG Lecturer, Department of History, University of Bielefeld FRANK GRUNERT Research Assistant, University of Basel KNUD HAAKONSSEN Professor of Philosophy, Boston University DIETER HÜNING Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University, Berlin DUNCAN IVISON Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney CLARE JACKSON Assistant Lecturer, Department of History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge PETTER KORKMAN Philosopher BLANDINE KRIEGEL Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris X (Nan terre) JON PARKIN Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York KARI SAASTAMOINEN Research Fellow, Academy of Finland PETER SCHRÖDER Lecturer, University College, London MICHAEL J. SEIDLER Professor of Philosophy, Western Kentucky University, USA

Inhalt
Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; I.Hunter & D.Saunders PART I: NATURAL LAW AND CIVIL AUTHORITY The Rule of the State and Natural Law; B.Kriegel The Moral Conservatism and Natural Rights; K.Haakonssen Pufendorf's Doctrine of Sovereignty and its Natural Law Foundations; T.Behme PART II: THE STRUGGLE OVER CHURCH AND STATE Natura naturans : Natural Law and the Sovereign in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes; C.Condren Probability, Punishments and Property: Richard Cumberland's Sceptical Science of Sovereignty; J.Parkin The Prince and the Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius; T.Ahnert PART III: NATURAL LAW AND THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGHNTY Civil Sovereignty and the King of Kings: Barbeyrac on the Creator's Right to Rule; P.Korkman Sovereignty and Resistance; F.Grunert From the Virtue of Justice to the Concept of Legal Order; D.Hüning PART IV: NATURAL LAW AND SOVEREIGNTY IN CONTEXT Natural Law and the Construction of Political Sovereignty in Scotland 1660-1690; C.Jackson Self-Defence in Statutory and Natural Law; R.von Friedeburg PART V: EARLY MODERN THOUGHT AND MODERN POLITICS Hobbes and Pufendorf on Natural Equality and Civil Sovereignty; K.Saastamoinen Natural Law, Sovereignty, and International Law; P.Schröder Property, Territory and Sovereignty; D.Ivison Pufendorf and the Politics of Recognition; M.J.Seidler