{"product_id":"9780865974739","title":"A Treatise of the Laws of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Treatise of the Laws of Nature,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e originally titled \u003ci\u003eDe Legibus Naturae,\u003c\/i\u003e first appeared in 1672 as a theoretical response to a range of issues that came together during the late 1660s. It conveyed a conviction that science might offer an effective means of demonstrating both the contents and the obligatory force of the law of nature. At a time when Hobbes’s work appeared to suggest that the application of science undermined rather than supported the idea of obligatory natural law, Cumberland’s \u003ci\u003eDe Legibus Naturae\u003c\/i\u003e provided a scientific explanation of the natural necessity of altruism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his argument for a moral obligation to natural law, Cumberland made a critical intervention in the early debate over the role of natural jurisprudence at a moment when the natural law project was widely suspected of heterodoxy and incoherence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberty Fund publishes the first modern edition of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Treatise of the Laws of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e based on John Maxwell’s English translation of 1727. The edition includes Maxwell’s extensive notes and appendixes. It also provides, for the first time in English, manuscript additions by Cumberland and material from Barbeyrac’s 1744 French edition and John Towers’s edition of 1750.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Cumberland\u003c\/b\u003e (1632–1718) was bishop of Peterborough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Parkin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of York, United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027459162352,"sku":"9780865974739","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865974739_p0.jpg?v=1763833936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865974739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}