Ebook: Natural law theories in the early Enlightenment

This intellectual tradition is recovered through a detailed analysis of the so-called 'histories of morality', which assessed contemporary innovations in ethics and political philosophy by describing the progress of the discipline since ancient times, and thus constitute the first serious histories of political thought. Equal consideration is also given to rationalist attempts by Leibniz and Wolff to defend traditional scholastic natural law against Hobbes and the followers of Pufendorf, and thus the work offers a detailed account of the range and importance of natural law theories within Germany in the era of enlightened absolutism, up to and including the onset of the Kantian revolution in moral philosophy."--Jacket.