Roman law in the state of nature : the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law / Benjamin Straumann ; translated by Belinda Cooper.
"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 o...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Natural law in historical context
- 2. A novel doctrine of the sources of law: nature and the classics
- 3. Proving natural law: the influence of classical rhetoric on Grotius' method
- 4. Social instinct or self-preservation?
- 5. Justice for the state of nature: from Aristotle to the Corpus Iuris
- 6. Grotius' concept of the state of nature
- 7. Natural rights: Roman remedies in the state of nature
- 8. Natural rights and just wars
- 9. Enforcing natural law: the right to punish
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.