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Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty

Hugo Grotius

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The history of Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty is complex. When Grotius’s personal papers were auctioned in The Hague in 1864, scholars discovered that Mare Liberum was just one chapter in a manuscript of 163 folios, written in justification of the capture of the Portuguese merchantman Santa Catarina in the Strait of Singapore in

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An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, Revised Edition An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, Revised Edition

Francis Hutcheson

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Francis Hutcheson’s first book, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his lifetime. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment is now available for the first time in a variorum edition based on the 1726 edition. The

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Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind

Francis Hutcheson

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Until the publication of this Liberty Fund edition, all but one of the works contained in Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind were available only in Latin. This milestone English translation will provide a general audience with insight into Hutcheson’s thought. In the words of the editors: “Hutcheson’s Latin texts in

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An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense

Francis Hutcheson

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In An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense, Francis Hutcheson answers the criticism that had been leveled against his first book Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725). Together the two works constitute the great innovation in philosophy for which

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The Free Sea The Free Sea

Hugo Grotius

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The freedom of the oceans of the world and coastal waters has been a contentious issue in international law for the past four hundred years. The most influential argument in favor of freedom of navigation, trade, and fishing was that put forth by the Dutch theorist Hugo Grotius in his 1609 Mare Liberum (The Free Sea). The Free Sea was originally

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The Elements of Moral Philosophy with a Brief Account of the Nature, Progress, and Origin of Philosophy The Elements of Moral Philosophy with a Brief Account of the Nature, Progress, and Origin of Philosophy

David Fordyce

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Though little known today, David Fordyce was an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and closely associated with liberal Dissenters in England. His Elements of Moral Philosophy was a notable contribution to the curriculum in moral philosophy and a widely circulated text in moral philosophy in the second half of the eighteenth

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A Treatise of the Laws of Nature A Treatise of the Laws of Nature

Richard Cumberland

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A Treatise of the Laws of Nature, originally titled De Legibus Naturae, first appeared in 1672 as a theoretical response to a range of issues that came together during the late 1660s. It conveyed a conviction that science might offer an effective means of demonstrating both the contents and the obligatory force of the law of nature. At a time when

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The Principles of Natural and Politic Law The Principles of Natural and Politic Law

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

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The year 1694 saw the death of Samuel Pufendorf, who, with Hugo Grotius, was the foremost representative of the modern tradition of natural law theory, and the birth of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, who helped transform the tradition and convey it to new generations. As professor of natural law in Geneva, Burlamaqui used Pufendorf’s works on natural

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An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

Nathaniel Culverwell

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An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature is a concerted effort to find a middle way between the two extremes that dominated the religious dispute of the English civil war in the seventeenth century. At one extreme end of the spectrum was the antinomian assertion that the elect were redeemed by God’s free grace and thereby free

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The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Marcus Aurelius' work Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration. The meditations serve as an example of how

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