Question: Natural Law and Enlightenment in France and Scotland. A comparative perspective.
Answer: One of the predominant theories in political and social philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can arguably be identified in the modern natural law tradition, which was inaugurated and shaped by the influential writings of Hugo Grotius and then further developed by scholars like Samuel Pufendorf, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff. Pufendorf and Thomasius themselves fostered this picture of a linear and purposeful development from Grotius to their own writings.[1]‘The Scottish philosophers, unlike those of any other country, were deeply influenced by this continental - mainly Dutch and German - brand of thought....(short extract)
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- Subject: Philosophy
- Course: Philosophy
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 70%
- Words: 9931
- Date submitted: January 11, 2010
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Dissertation
- Essay ID: 2598
