They ‘submitted themselves with their lands to his majesty … for ever and always’: natural law and Danish colonialism on the eighteenth-century Guinea Coast II

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Mads Langballe Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Guinea Coast

Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades

1992 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Daryl M. Hafter ◽  
Michael Sonenscher
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural Law

Carmichael, Gershom (1672–1729)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Moore ◽  
Michael Silverthorne
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Thomas Reid ◽  
Francis Hutcheson ◽  
The University

Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer of pivotal importance for the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. He was the first Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, predecessor of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid. Carmichael introduced the natural law tradition of Grotius, Pufendorf and Locke to the moral philosophy courses he taught at the University of Glasgow (1694–1729). His commentaries on Samuel Pufendorf’s work on the duty of man and citizen (1718 and 1724) made his teaching available to a wider readership in Great Britain and in Europe. He also composed an introduction to logic, Breviuscula Introductio ad Logicam, (1720 and 1722) and a brief system of natural theology, Synopsis Theologiae Naturalis (1729).

A Liberal before Liberalism: Karl Hermann Scheidler and the New Hegelians

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Charles Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Moral Perfection ◽  
Corporate Autonomy

This paper is the first substantial investigation in English or German of the work and career of the student of Jacob Fries, leader of the Burschenschaften, educational reformer, and professor of philosophy and law Karl Hermann Scheidler. It examines Scheidler's interventions into political and constitutional debates during the German Vormärz and argues that he developed a unique brand of liberal corporatism that has been overlooked or misunderstood by intellectual historians—one that attempts to bridge the gap between eighteenth-century natural law and nineteenth-century political nationalism by defending the corporate autonomy of the churches and universities, and by promoting a combination of public virtue and moral perfection that he dubbed “political Protestantism.” It emphasizes Scheidler's polemical articles against the “Hegel school” and the “New Hegelians” in Rotteck's and Welcker's Staats-Lexikon. It proposes that a detailed examination of Scheidler's work provides a clearer understanding of how liberalism emerged as a distinct political ideology during the Vormärz and how one strand of German liberalism defined itself against Hegelianism.

Conscience and reason: the natural law theory of Jean Barbeyrac

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Hochstrasser
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Original Equation ◽  
General Development ◽  
Independent Contribution ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Natural Law Theory ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Civil Authority

ABSTRACTJean Barbeyrac is best known as the leading eighteenth-century translator in French of the major writings on natural law by Pufendorf, Grotius and Cumberland. This article attempts to expound and assess Barbeyrac's independent contribution to the natural law tradition as it may be recovered both from these editions of the works of others and also from other writings. It is argued that Barbeyrac's intellectual context in the Huguenot diaspora and his distinctive reading of Locke, Bayle, and Pufendorf led him to develop an original equation of the authority of conscience with the authority of reason. The rationalist natural law theory he developed inevitably identified the role assigned to God within it and the scope of resistance to legal civil authority as central issues for debate which remained problematic for Barbeyrac throughout his career. These important ethical subjects remained unresolved in the general development of natural jurisprudence in the early eighteenth century, as exemplified in Barbeyrac's attempt to refute Leibniz's telling critique of Pufendorf.

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