Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume

Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume

by Stephen Buckle
ISBN-10:
0198240945
ISBN-13:
9780198240945
Pub. Date:
10/21/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0198240945
ISBN-13:
9780198240945
Pub. Date:
10/21/1993
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume

Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume

by Stephen Buckle

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Overview

In this book, Stephen Buckle provides a historical perspective on the political philosophies of Locke and Hume, arguing that there are continuities in the development of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political theory which have often gone unrecognized. He begins with a detailed exposition of Grotius's and Pufendorf's modern natural law theory, focusing on their accounts of the nature of natural law, human sociability, the development of forms of property, and the question of slavery. He then shows that Locke's political theory takes up and develops these basic themes of natural law. Buckle argues further that, rather than being a departure from this tradition, the moral sense theory of Hutcheson and Hume represents an attempt—which is not entirely successful—to underpin the natural law theory with an adequate moral psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198240945
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/21/1993
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

University of Sydney

Table of Contents

1. Hugo Grotius
2. Samuel Pufendorf
3. John Locke
4. Francis Hutcheson
5. David Hume
Appendix: The psychology of moral action: From Locke's Essay to Hutcheson's Inquiry;
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