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Leibniz: Political Writings Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Leibniz: Political Writings By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Leibniz's political and ethical writing long has been neglected, and with this new edition Professor Riley makes available the most representative pieces from Leibniz's political theory. This new edition, specially prepared for this series, is the first to make a considerable number of Leibniz's writings available in English.

Prefae to the second edition; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. On Justice and Natural Law: 1. Meditation on the common concept of justice (c. 1702-3); 2. Opinion on the principles of Pufendorf (1706); Part II. On Social Life, Enlightenment and the Rule of Princes: 3. On natural law; 4. Notes on social life; 5. Felicity (c. 1694-8?); 6. Portrait of the prince (1679); 7. Memoir for enlightened persons of good intention (mid-1690s); Part IIII. On State-Sovereignty and Hobbesian Ideas: 8. Caesarinus Furstenerius (De Suprematu Principium Germaniae) (1677); Part IV. On the Defense of Hapsburg Europe against France: 9. Mars Christianissumus (most Christian war-god) (1683); 10. Manifesto for the defense of the Rights of Charles III (1703); Part V. On International Relations and International Law: 11. Codex Iuris Gentium (Prefatio) (1693); 12. On the works of the Abbe de St Pierre (1715), observations on the Abbe's Project for Perpetual Peace (1715), Letter II to Grimarest (1712); Part VI. Political Letters: 13. Excerpts from letters to Landgraf Ernst of Hesse-Rheinfels , Bousset and Thomas Burnett, two letters to Landgraf Ernst of Hesse-Rheinfels (1683-91), two letters to Bousset concerning the reunification of Christendom (1692-9), three letters to Thomas Burnett (1699-1712); 14. Judgement of the works of the Earl of Shaftesbury (1712); Part VII. Sovereignty and Dignity: Unpublished Manuscripts, 1695-1714: 15. An unpublished manuscript of Leibniz on the allegiance due to sovereign powers (1695); 16. Leibniz' unpublished remarks on Abbe Bucquoi: divinity and sovereignty (1711); 17. An unpublished lecture by Leibniz on the Greeks as founders of rational theology: its relation to his 'Universal Jurisprudence' (1714); Critical Bibliography; Index.

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GOR004380545

ISBN 13

9780521358996

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052135899X

Title

Leibniz: Political Writings by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Author

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Series

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year published

1988-11-10

Number of pages

262

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