Preface Introduction 1. The Science of Right: Its Method and Grounds in the Nova Methodus 2. Right, Justice, Love: A Response to Carneades in the Elementa Juris Naturalis 3. The Middle Period: Ius, Caritas, and the Codex Juris Gentium 4. Causes and Concepts in the Science of Right 5. Necessity, Obligation, and Freedom 6. Leibniz Among Grotius, Hobbes, and Locke Appendix: Translation of Nova Methodus Discendae Docendaeque Jurisprudentiae Endnotes Bibliography Index
A new understanding of the foundations of Gottfried Leibniz's moral and political philosophy based on formal deontic principles rather than consequentialism.
Christopher Johns is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
The book has three great merits: it deals with a part of the work
of Leibniz yet undervalued by commentators (in particular the law
and morality); it offers the reader translations of texts ... which
are certainly already known but insufficiently explored ... and it
offers a novel interpretation of the practical philosophy of
Leibniz.
*Archives de Philosophie (Bloomsbury translation)*
This is a superb and lasting contribution to Leibniz scholarship.
No other pioneering work of its kind exhaustively investigates how
Leibniz's science of right (ius) lays a deontological foundation
for his moral philosophy. No other comparable work shows how the
basic principles of this science relate to--and shape--Leibniz's
general metaphysics. Johns provides a major reassessment, not only
of Leibniz's juridical theory of right, but its place in early
modern ethics and political philosophy. This book should be
immensely useful to anyone with serious interests in the history of
modern moral philosophy, especially from Grotius to Kant and
Hegel.
*Jeffrey Edwards, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook
University, USA*
Christopher Jones has produced a comprehensive and insightful
account of Leibniz’s theory of right on the basis of a careful
reading of the published sources. All students of Leibniz’s moral,
legal, and political philosophy will draw much profit from this
informative work.
*Nicholas Rescher, Distinguished University Professor of
Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA*
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