Y a-t-il des lois en économie ? Cette question fait l'objet d'une interrogation à travers tout cet ouvrage. S'il n'y a pas de lois, alors en quoi l'économie peut-elle être l'objet d'une science ou d'un art ?

Dr Brett traces the range of the terminology of rights within the scholastic tradition from the thirteenth-century poverty controversy to the works of the sixteenth-century neo-Thomistic 'School of Salamanca'.

La philosophie des sciences de l'empirisme logique avait discredite la causalite comme etant un concept du sens commun irremediablement vague et confus, pour lui substituer le concept d'explication scientifique.

The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.

Overall, the book provides an important new perspective on the interaction of science, religion and politics in Restoration England. Dr JON PARKIN teaches in the Department of History at King's College, London.

English summary: This book is a reconstruction of notes taken by six different people during a lectures on Natural Law and the History of Universal Law, given regularly by Eduard Gans, a jurist and pupil of Hegel's, from the winter semester ...

Stephen Neff's edited and annotated version of the text rectifies this situation.

This edition provides an historically sensitive translation of Pufendorf's On the Duty of Man and Citizen (1673).

This book offers a systematic exposition of Aristotle's legal thought and account of the relationship between law and politics.

Over the last thirty years the American political class has come to talk itself out of the doctrines of 'natural rights' that formed the main teaching of the American Founders and Abraham Lincoln.