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Cover of Paul Shorey: Platonism

Paul Shorey: Platonism

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, …

Cover of Jean Louis De Lolme: The Constitution of England

Jean Louis De Lolme: The Constitution of England

In the vein of Charles Louis Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) and William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), De Lolme’s account of the English system of government …

Cover of Francis Hutcheson: Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Francis Hutcheson: Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria, with A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy

In this new, dual-language edition, Hutcheson’s Latin Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is presented on facing pages with its English translation, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosoph …

Cover of Francis Hutcheson: An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense

Francis Hutcheson: An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense

In An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense, Francis Hutcheson answers the criticism that had been leveled against his first book, In …

Cover of Samuel Pufendorf: An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe

Samuel Pufendorf: An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe

Samuel Pufendorf was a pivotal figure in the early German Enlightenment. His version of voluntarist natural law theory had a major influence both on the European continent and elsewhere in the Engl …

Cover of Nathaniel Culverwell: An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

Nathaniel Culverwell: An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature is a concerted effort at intellectual mediation in the deep religious dispute of the English civil war in the seventeenth century. On one sid …

Cover of Christian Wolff: The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method

Christian Wolff: The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method

Christian Wolff’s The Law of Nations is a cornerstone of eighteenth-century thought. A treatise on the philosophy of human action, on the foundations of political communities, and on international …

Cover of John Millar: An Historical View of the English Government

John Millar: An Historical View of the English Government

An Historical View of the English Government traces the development of the “great outlines of the English constitution”—the history of institutions of English liberty from Saxon antiquity to the re …

Cover of Christian Thomasius: Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations

Christian Thomasius: Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations

Christian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England. Firs …

Cover of Paul Oskar Kristeller: Renaissance Thought and the Arts

Paul Oskar Kristeller: Renaissance Thought and the Arts

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller’s specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art …