Reforming the Law of Nature

Natural Law in the Reformed Tradition and the Secularisation of Political Thought, 1532–1688

AvSimon P. Kennedy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and conceptions of the origins of politicsReforming the Law of Nature is a stimulating study of the development of natural law ideas in the early modern period. The book brings sixteenth and seventeenth century jurisprudence, theology and political philosophy into conversation with one another to explore the ways in which developments in political thought in the Reformed Protestant tradition affected the emergence of a secular understanding of political life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:486 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474493987

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Simon P. Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Christian Heritage College and the Director of the Millis Institute, in Brisbane, Queensland. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He researches the intersections between political ideas, law, and religion.

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Simon P. Kennedy offers an intellectual contribution of exceptionally high merit. By offering a nuanced and historically well-grounded analysis, demonstrates convincingly how natural law thinking in the early modern period first coincided with and then became unmoored from Protestant thought. Reforming the Law of Nature should effect a fundamental change in the way in which we recount the history of European natural law theory.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionJohn Calvin’s Political NaturalismRichard Hooker’s Theistic NaturalismJohannes Althusius and Political Society as PactumThomas Hobbes: Reforming Nature, Profaning PoliticsJohn Locke on Conventional PoliticsConclusion