Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law
Benjamin Straumann
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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Año:
2015
Edición:
Tra
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
283
ISBN 10:
1107092906
ISBN 13:
9781107092907
Serie:
Ideas in Context
Archivo:
PDF, 1.65 MB
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english, 2015