Stephen Buckle traces the history of theories of natural law, social order, and property through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

斯蒂芬·巴克勒（Stephen Buckle）博士，澳大利亚天主教大学（Australian Catholic University)神学与哲学学院的高级讲师（Senior Lecturer），专攻英格兰哲学尤其是休谟之学，是这个领域备受关注的研究者。他是英国哲学史学会（British Society for the History of Philosophy）和休谟研究会（Hume Society）的会员。迄今为止已出版与发表这个领域的多本专著和论文。 周清林，湖南涟源人，西南政法大学民商法学院副教授，法学博士。迄今出版《主体哲学的私法展开：权利能力研究》专著一本，副主编连续出版物《民法哲学研究》，发表了如《从“Recht”到“f?higkeit”：论作为民法基础的消极人格》《走向何种“自然”：自然人观念在中国的变迁》《经典理论理解与人本主义之间—...(展开全部)

This major contribution to the history of philosophy provides the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and contractarianism, and offers an extensive study of the Scottish Enlightenment. The time span covered is considerable: from the natural law theories of Grotius and Suarez in the early sevent...(展开全部)

This major contribution to the history of philosophy provides the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and contractarianism, and offers an extensive study of the Scottish Enlightenment. The time span covered is considerable: from the natural law theories of Grotius and Suarez in the early sevent...(展开全部)

This book provides the first systematic, book-length defence of natural law ideas in ethics, politics and jurisprudence since John Finnis's influential Natural Law and Natural Rights. Incorporating insights from recent work in ethical, legal and social theory, it presents a robust and original account of the natural law tradition, challenging common perceptions of natural law a...(展开全部)

This book provides the first systematic, book-length defence of natural law ideas in ethics, politics and jurisprudence since John Finnis's influential Natural Law and Natural Rights. Incorporating insights from recent work in ethical, legal and social theory, it presents a robust and original account of the natural law tradition, challenging common perceptions of natural law a...(展开全部)

In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition. In Section 3, I go on to elaborate a via negativa along which natural law norms can be discovered. On this basis, I unpack what I ca...(展开全部)

Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of ...(展开全部)