Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy: Volume 1: From Plato to Rousseau

by Gianfrancesco Zanetti (Editor), Mortimer Sellers (Editor), Stephan Kirste (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031195426
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	04/03/2023
Series:	Studies in the History of Law and Justice , #22
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	794 KB

About the Author

Gianfrancesco Zanetti taught Jurisprudence and Political Theory in the University of Bologna, University of Modena, Military Academy of Modena (course for the Carabinieri Cadets), Hunter College CUNY (New York), UC Berkeley.
Mortimer Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland. He is past President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). 

Stephan Kirste holds the Chair for the Philosophy of Law and Head of the Department for Legal Theory, International and European Law at the University of Salzburg, Professor Colaborador at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and member of the Council of the German Speaking International Andrássy University, Budapest.

Table of Contents

Abelard, Peter.- Al-Ghazali (Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī).- Alighieri, Dante.- Al-Kindi (Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī).- Althusius, Johannes.- Aquinas, Thomas.- Aristotle’s Legal and Social Philosophy.- Augustine of Hippo.- Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā).- Bartolus.- Bodin, Jean.- Bracton, Henry de.- Calvin, John (Jehan).- Campanella, Tommaso.- Casas, Bartolomé de Las.- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.- Confucius.- Cusa, Nicholas of.- Duns Scotus, Ioannis.- Fortescue, John.- Grotius, Hugo.- Harrington, James.- Hobbes, Thomas.- Hume and Law.- Hutcheson, Francis.- John of Salisbury.- Laozi.- Locke, John.- Luther, Martin.- Machiavelli, Niccolò.- Marsilius of Padua.- Montaigne, Michel de.- Montesquieu.- More, Thomas.- Ockham, William.- Pascal, Blaise.- Pico della Mirandola.- Plato.- Polybius.- Ptolemy of Lucca.- Pufendorf, Samuel.- Quesnay, François (Méré 1694 – Versailles 1774).- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Law.- Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury).- Spinoza, Baruch.- Suárez, Francisco (1548–1617).- Thomasius, Christian.- Ubaldis, Baldus de.- Vico, Giambattista.- Voltaire.