THOMAS AHNERT Reader of History, St John's College, CambridgeTHOMAS BEHME Professor of Philosophy, Freie University, BerlinCONAL CONDREN Professor of Political Science and Director of Humanities Research Programme, University of New South Wales, AustraliaROBERT VON FRIEDEBURG Lecturer, Department of History, University of BielefeldFRANK GRUNERT Research Assistant, University of BaselKNUD HAAKONSSEN Professor of Philosophy, Boston UniversityDIETER HÜNING Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University, BerlinDUNCAN IVISON Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of SydneyCLARE JACKSON Assistant Lecturer, Department of History of Political Thought, University of CambridgePETTER KORKMAN PhilosopherBLANDINE KRIEGEL Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris X (Nan terre)JON PARKIN Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of YorkKARI SAASTAMOINEN Research Fellow, Academy of FinlandPETER SCHRÖDER Lecturer, University College, LondonMICHAEL J. SEIDLER Professor of Philosophy, Western Kentucky University, USA

'Undoubtedly this collection marks an important step in the historization of the history of political thought on natural law...' - Wolfgang E.J Weber, History of Poltical Thought

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; I.Hunter & D.Saunders PART I: NATURAL LAW AND CIVIL AUTHORITY The Rule of the State and Natural Law; B.Kriegel The Moral Conservatism and Natural Rights; K.Haakonssen Pufendorf's Doctrine of Sovereignty and its Natural Law Foundations; T.Behme PART II: THE STRUGGLE OVER CHURCH AND STATE Natura naturans : Natural Law and the Sovereign in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes; C.Condren Probability, Punishments and Property: Richard Cumberland's Sceptical Science of Sovereignty; J.Parkin The Prince and the Church in the Thought of Christian Thomasius; T.Ahnert PART III: NATURAL LAW AND THE LIMITS OF SOVEREIGHNTY Civil Sovereignty and the King of Kings: Barbeyrac on the Creator's Right to Rule; P.Korkman Sovereignty and Resistance; F.Grunert From the Virtue of Justice to the Concept of Legal Order; D.Hüning PART IV: NATURAL LAW AND SOVEREIGNTY IN CONTEXT Natural Law and the Construction of Political Sovereignty in Scotland 1660-1690; C.Jackson Self-Defence in Statutory and Natural Law; R.von Friedeburg PART V: EARLY MODERN THOUGHT AND MODERN POLITICS Hobbes and Pufendorf on Natural Equality and Civil Sovereignty; K.Saastamoinen Natural Law, Sovereignty, and International Law; P.Schröder Property, Territory and Sovereignty; D.Ivison Pufendorf and the Politics of Recognition; M.J.Seidler