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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

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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

Richard Cumberland

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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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A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full” A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full”

Pierre Bayle

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

The topics of church and state, religious toleration, the legal enforcement of religious practices, and religiously motivated violence on the part of individuals have once again become burning issues. Pierre Bayle’s Philosophical Commentary was a major attempt to deal with very similar problems three centuries ago. His argument is that if the

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The Free Sea The Free Sea

Hugo Grotius

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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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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

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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

Francis Hutcheson

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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 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

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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

Hugo Grotius

Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.

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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The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne The Collected Works of Henry G. Manne

Henry G. Manne

Издател: Liberty Fund

As the founder of the Center for Law and Economics at George Mason University and dean emeritus of the George Mason School of Law, Henry G. Manne is one of the founding scholars of law and economics as a discipline. This three-volume collection includes articles, reviews, and books from more than four decades, featuring Wall Street in Transition,

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