{"product_id":"9781614871835","title":"The Principles of Natural and Politic Law","description":"The year 1694 saw the death of Samuel Pufendorf, who, with Hugo Grotius, was the foremost representative of the modern tradition of natural law theory, and the birth of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, who helped transform the tradition and convey it to new generations.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs professor of natural law in Geneva, Burlamaqui used Pufendorf’s works on natural law but taught and wrote on the subject in the vernacular, not in the traditional university Latin. By making natural jurisprudence more accessible, Burlamaqui helped make it part of civic education.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBurlamaqui intended his writings to defend a middle road between the two main rival traditions in early modern natural law theory, that deriving from Leibniz and Wolff and that from Pufendorf and Barbeyrac. In fact, he seems closer to the former.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe basis of this version of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Principles of Natural and Politic Law\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is Thomas Nugent’s 1763 English translation, which became a standard textbook at Cambridge and at many premier American colleges, including Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. The first scholarly work on Burlamaqui was written by an American, M. Ray Forrest Harvey, who in 1937 argued that Burlamaqui was well known among America’s Founding Fathers and that his writings exerted considerable influence upon the American constitutional system.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his introduction, Nugent said of Burlamaqui: “His singular beauty consists in the alliance he so carefully points out between ethics and jurisprudence, religion and politics, after the example of Plato and Tully, and the other illustrious masters of antiquity.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJean-Jacques Burlamaqui\u003c\/strong\u003e (1694–1748) was a Swiss jurist. His chief works\u003cbr\u003eare \u003cem\u003ePrincipes du droit naturel (Principles of Natural Law) \u003c\/em\u003e(1747) and \u003cem\u003ePrincipes\u003cbr\u003edu droit politique (Principles of Political Law) \u003c\/em\u003e(1751).\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePetter Korkman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\u003cbr\u003eand is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the Academy of Finland.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163168129264,"sku":"9781614871835","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614871835_p0.jpg?v=1763850260","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614871835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}