Roman Law in the State of Nature : The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law Paperback / softback
by Benjamin (New York University) Straumann
Part of the Ideas in Context series
Paperback / softback
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Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory.
Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law.
The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature.
This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:285 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/2019
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- ISBN:9781107470163
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:285 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107470163
