Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty : Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought

by Edited by Ian Hunter and David Saunders

• ISBN13: 9780333964590
• ISBN10: 0333964594
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-09-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.

Author Biography

Ian Hunter is Senior Fellow at the Australian Research Council, Griffith University.

David Saunders is Professor at Griffith University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(10)
Ian Hunter
David Saunders
PART I: NATURAL LAW AND CIVIL AUTHORITY	11	(48)
The Rule of the State and Natural Law	13	(14)
Blandine Kriegel
The Moral Conservatism of Natural Rights	27	(16)
Knud Haakonseen
Pufendorf's Doctrine of Sovereignty and its Natural Law Foundations	43	(16)
Thomas Behme
PART II: THE STRUGGLE OVER CHURCH AND STATE	59	(48)
Natura naturans: Natural Law and the Sovereign in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes	61	(15)
Conal Condren
Probability, Punishments and Property: Richard Cumberland's Sceptical Science of Sovereignty	76	(15)
Jon Parkin
The Prince and the Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius	91	(16)
Thomas Ahnert
PART III: NATURAL LAW AND THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGNTY	107	(46)
Civil Sovereigns and the King of Kings: Barbeyrac on the Creator's Right to Rule	109	(14)
Petter Korkman
Sovereignty and Resistance: The Development of the Right of Resistance in German Natural Law	123	(16)
Frank Grunert
From the Virtue of Justice to the Concept of Legal Order: The Significance of the suum cuique tribuere in Hobbes' Political Philosophy	139	(14)
Dieter Huning
PART IV: NATURAL LAW AND SOVEREIGNTY IN CONTEXT	153	(34)
Natural Law and the Construction of Political Sovereignty in Scotland, 1660-1690	155	(15)
Clare Jackson
Self-Defence in Statutory and Natural Law: The Reception of German Political Thought in Britain	170	(17)
Robert von Friedeburg
PART V: EARLY MODERN THOUGHT AND MODERN POLITICS	187	(66)
Hobbes and Pufendorf on Natural Equality and Civil Sovereignty	189	(15)
Kari Saastamoinen
Natural Law, Sovereignty and International Law: A Comparative Perspective	204	(15)
Peter Schroder
Property, Territory and Sovereignty: Justifying Political Boundaries	219	(16)
Duncan Ivison
Pufendorf and the Politics of Recognition	235	(18)
Michael J. Seidler
Index	253