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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--


  • | Author: Benjamin Straumann, Yuma Totani
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: Feb 16, 2015
  • | Number of Pages: 290 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1107087627
  • | ISBN-13: 9781107087620
Author:
Benjamin Straumann, Yuma Totani
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Feb 16, 2015
Number of pages:
290 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1107087627
ISBN-13:
9781107087620