Natural law and laws of nature in early modern Europe
Subtitle: jurisprudence, theology, moral, and natural philosophy
By: edited by Lorraine Daston and Michael Stolleis.
Contributors: Daston, Lorraine, 1951-; Stolleis, Michael, 1941-.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754657613
Subjects: Natural law -- History; Law and ethics -- History; Science and law -- Europe -- History; Religion and law -- Europe -- History; Law -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From limits to laws : the transformation of ancient atomism in early modern philosophy / Catherine Wilson; title: Expressing natures regularities and their determinations in the late Renaissance / Ian Maclean; title: The legitimation of law through god, tradition, will, nature and constitution / Michael Stolleis; title: The concept of (natural) law in the doctrine of law and natural law of the early modern era / Jan Schröder; title: Lex certa and ius certum : the search for legal certainty and security / Heinz Mohnhaupt; title: Crimen contra naturam / Andreas Roth; title: Natures regularity in some protestant natural philosophy textbooks 1530 - 1630 / Sachiko Kusukawa; title: Natural order and divine salvation : protestant conceptions in early modern germany (15501750) / Anne-Charlott Trepp; title: Natural law and celestial regularities from Copernicus to Kepler / Gerd Grasshof; title: The approach to a physical concept of law in the early modern period : a comparison between Matthias Bernegger and Richard Cumberland / Hubert Treiber; title: Leibniz's concept of jus naturale and lex naturalis defined with geometric certainty / Klaus Luig; title: Controversies on nature as universal legality (1680-1710) / Sophie Roux; title: From principles to regularities : tracing laws of nature in early modern France and England / Friedrich Steinle; title: Unruly weather : natural law confronts natural variability / Lorraine Daston; title: In search of the newton of the moral world / Cathérine Larrère; title: Deus legislator / Jean-Robert Armogathe.