{"product_id":"9780865975194","title":"Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations","description":"\u003cp\u003eChristian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1688, Thomasius’s \u003ci\u003eInstitutionum jurisprudentiae divinae\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eInstitutes of Divine Jurisprudence\u003c\/i\u003e) attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural and revealed law and to emphasize that human reason was able to know the precepts of natural law without the aid of Scripture. Thomasius also argued that his orthodox Lutheran opponents had failed to understand this distinction and thereby had confused reason and Scripture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstitutes of Divine Jurisprudence,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e this volume contains significant selections from his \u003ci\u003eFundamenta juris naturae et gentium\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eFoundations of the Law of Nature and Nations\u003c\/i\u003e), published in 1705. In \u003ci\u003eFoundations\u003c\/i\u003e Thomasius significantly revised the theory he had put forward in the \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstitutes,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and much of the \u003ci\u003eFoundations\u003c\/i\u003e therefore is a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on his earlier ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese works are a companion to Thomasius’s \u003ci\u003eEssays on Church, State, and Politics,\u003c\/i\u003e and together they provide the first-ever English presentation of this preeminent German thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Thomasius\u003c\/b\u003e (1655–1728) was a German philosopher and legal theorist. He was a cofounder of the University of Halle, where he was also a professor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Ahnert\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032885248240,"sku":"9780865975194","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865975194_p0.jpg?v=1763841696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865975194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}