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"This is a study of the philosophy and theology of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on European natural law and political liberalism. It analyses transformations of the concept of sacred nature and the human light of reason leading to the Anthropocene, and fluctuations between human necessities and scientific money"--
List of contents
Introduction; I Altering the Perception of Nature; II Nature and The Light of Nature; III Needs, Politics and Money; IV Necessity and Liberalism; IV Outline of Chapters; 1. A Christian Science: Searching for the Common Good and the Public Good; 1.1 Deism, Neoplatonism and the Light of Reason; 1.2 Scepticism and Moral Righteousness; 1.3 Hobbes and Locke versus Filmer on Political Economy; 1.4 The New Oeconomies: Household - State - Nature; 2. Hobbes's Doctrine of Necessity; 2.1 Hobbes's Doctrine of Necessity and Existence; 2.2 Necessitarian Metaphysics and (Human) Body in Avicenna and Hobbes; 3. Necessities, Natural Rights and Sovereignty in Leviathan; 3.1 Hobbes's Necessity, Theology and Natural Laws; 3.2 The Doctrine of Necessity in Leviathan; 4. Reformers on the Necessary Knowledge; 4.1 Useful Knowledge as the Only Necessary Knowledge: Benjamin Worsley in Context; 4.2 All-Encompassing Human Necessities; 5. Necessity, Free Will and Conscience: Robert Sanderson; 5.1 Logician and Theologian; 5.2 The Mechanical Conscience; 6. The Grand Business of Nature; 6.1 The Oeconomy of Nature; 6.2 The Fact of Man; 6.3 The Grand Business of Nature; 7. Robert Boyle, the Empire over Nature; 7.1 Nothing Is Necessary: Benjamin Worsley Revisited; 7.2 The Transmutator of Nature; 7.3 Undoing Nature; 8. Locke's Early Writings; 8.1 Independent Judgment of Conscience, Public Order and Public Interest; 8.2 Undoing Conscience; 9. Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs; 9.1 The Oeconomy of Needs; 9.2 Physicians and Oeconomia; 10. Money and the Doctrine of Necessities; 10.1 Locke's Doctrine of Necessities; 10.2 Usury, Interest and Science; 11. The Scientification of Money; 11.1 The Science of Interest; 11.2 The Morality of Capital; 12. The Doctrine of Necessities and the (Public) Good; 12.1 Necessity and Necessities in Knowledge and Morality: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; 12.2 Necessities, Dominion and Money in the Two Treatises of Government; Conclusions; Index; Bibliography appears only online.
About the author
Mónica García-Salmones Rovira is Global Law Fellow in the Alvaro d'Ors Global Law Chair, ICS, at the University of Navarre, and a Senior Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law, University of Helsinki. She is the author of The Project of Positivism in International Law (2013) and co-editor of Cosmopolitanisms in Enlightenment Europe and Beyond (2013) and International Law and Religion (2017).
Summary
Tackling issues such as money, human nature, secularism, and epistemology, which underlie the philosophy and theology of the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution, García-Salmones explains the enduring relevance of Hobbes, and Locke's thought for international legal studies today.
Foreword
A study of the natural law ideas of the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution and their impact on the philosophy of law.
