| Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law Contributor(s): Straumann, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107470161 ISBN-13: 9781107470163 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - Law | Jurisprudence - Law | Natural Law |
| Dewey: 340.112 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 285 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |