Roman Law in the State of Nature - The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ideas in Context
Release date:	February 2015
Authors:	Benjamin Straumann
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	286
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-09290-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	1-107-09290-6
Barcode:	9781107092907

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