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Samuel Pufendorf and the Right of Necessity

Alejandra Mancilla

Aporia 3:47-64 (2012)

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The Two Levels in Natural Law Thinking.Karl Olivecrona & Thomas Mautner - 2010 - Jurisprudence 1 (2):197-224.details Central parts of the natural law theories of Grotius and Pufendorf assume that persons by nature have individual realms of their own, violations of which constitute a wrong. This is the basis for their accounts of promises, ownership and reactions against wrongs. These accounts are significantly independent of any assumption that a superior being imposes obligations: rather, the individuals themselves create obligations by their own acts of will. The translator's introducton draws attention to the author's relation to Hägerström, and remarks (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
The basis of moral liability to defensive killing.Jeff McMahan - 2005 - Philosophical Issues 15 (1):386–405.details There may be circumstances in which it is morally justifiable intentionally to kill a person who is morally innocent, threatens no one, rationally wishes not to die, and does not consent to be killed. Although the killing would wrong the victim, it might be justified by the necessity of averting some disaster that would otherwise occur. In other instances of permissible killing, however, the justification appeals to more than consequences. It may appeal to the claim that the person to be (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 114 citations
Natural law and the theory of property: Grotius to Hume.Stephen Buckle - 1991 - New York: Oxford University Press.details In this book, Buckle provides a historical perspective on the political philosophies of Locke and Hume, arguing that there are continuities in the development of seventeenth and eighteenth-century political theory which have often gone unrecognized. He begins with a detailed exposition of Grotius's and Pufendorf's modern natural law theory, focussing on their accounts of the nature of natural law, human sociability, the development of forms of property, and the question of slavery. He then shows that Locke's political theory takes up (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 26 citations
On the law of war and peace.Hugo Grotius - unknowndetails Download Export citation Bookmark 58 citations

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