Natural law and laws of nature in early modern Europe; jurisprudence, theology, moral and natural philosophy.

9780754657613

Natural law and laws of nature in early modern Europe; jurisprudence, theology, moral and natural philosophy.

Ed. by Lorraine Daston and Michael Stolleis.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2008

338 pages

$114.95

Hardcover

K455

Was the parallel development of concepts of natural law in European jurisprudence and natural philosophy from the mid-sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries merely a coincidence, a form of linguistic confusion, or was it taking place within a common conceptual matrix, in which theological, philosophical, and political arguments converged to make the analogy between legal and natural orders compelling? The editors (of Germany's Max Planck Institute for History of Science and Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) present sixteen papers that explore this question and its implications, drawing on examples from the histories of law, science, philosophy, and theology.

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