Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
ISBN: 978-1-00-933216-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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Preface; Introduction; 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; 2.1.1 A Yearning for Necessity; 2.1.2 Neoplatonist Necessary Existence of Avicenna; 2.2 Necessitarian Metaphysics and (Human) Body in Avicenna and Hobbes; 2.2.1 Hobbes's Early Necessitarianism; 2.2.2 Hobbes's Metaphysics of Bodies and its Implication to Morality; 3. Necessities, Natural Rights and Sovereignty in Leviathan; 3.1 Hobbes's Necessity, Theology and Natural Laws; 3.1.1 Within the Tradition of Power; 3.1.2 The Tradition of Natural Laws Updated; 3.2 The Doctrine of Necessity in Leviathan; 3.2.1 Natural Rights and Necessity; 3.2.2 The Needs of Others; 3.2.3 Naturalism; 3.2.4 The Needs of the Sovereign; 3.2.5 The Necessary Freedom; 3.2.6 Faith and Necessity; 4. Reformers on the Necessary Knowledge; 4.1 Useful Knowledge as the Only Necessary Knowledge: Benjamin Worsley in Context; 4.1.1 Jan Comenius and Sir Cheney Culpeper on Nature; 4.1.2 A 'Professor of Necessities'; 4.1.3 Robert Boyle: between Nature and Utilitarian Science; 4.2 All-Encompassing Human Necessities; 4.2.1 Hartlib's 'Office of Publick Address'; 4.2.2 'A Well Regulated Plantation'; 4.2.3 The Knowledge of Trade; 5. Necessity, Free Will and Conscience: Robert Sanderson; 5.1 Logician and Theologian:; 5.1.1 An English Casuist; 5.1.2 Predestination, Necessity and Free Will; 5.2 The Mechanical Conscience; 5.2.1 The Age of Conscience; 5.2.2 Albert the Great, Aquinas and Ralph Cudworth on the Agent Intellect; 5.2.3 Necessary Discursive Reasoning; 5.2.4 The Necessity of Obedience; 6. The Grand Business of Nature; 6.1 The Oeconomy of Nature; 6.1.1 The Last Atom; 6.1.2 The Multiplier; 6.1.3 Natural Philosophy Without Moral Natural Law; 6.2 The Fact of Man; 6.2.1 Voluntarist Law; 6.2.2 Aretology: Embracing Human Body; 6.3 The Grand Business of Nature; 6.3.1 Aquinas's Theology of Use; 6.3.2 Knowing the Bountiful Nature; 6.3.3 Technology from the Plantations; 7. Robert Boyle, the Empire over Nature; 7.1 Nothing is Necessary: Benjamin Worsley Revisited; 7.1.1 Mentoring Boyle; 7.1.2 Worsley the Prophet; 7.2 The Transmutator of Nature; 7.2.1 God's Concurrence; 7.2.2 The Uncertain Boundaries of Natures; 7.2.3 God's Arbitrary Will and Humans' Right Reasoning; 7.2.4 The Viewpoint in Boyle's Laws of Nature; 7.2.5 Selden, Milton, Cumberland and Boyle on Weakness of Reason; 7.3 Undoing Nature; 7.3.1 The Unlimited Reason; 7.3.2 The 'Unnecessariness' of Nature; 8 Locke's Early Writings; 8.1 Independent Judgment of Conscience, Public Law and Public Interest; 8.1.1 The Governance of 'Matters Indifferent'; 8.1.2 Locke's Tracts on Government and Judgment about Necessary Things; 8.1.3 Moral Perplexity Erased; 8.2 Undoing Conscience; 8.2.1 No Innate Principles; 8.2.2 Common Necessities and Not Interest; 9. Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs; 9.1 The Oeconomy of Needs; 9.1.1 Resituating Natural Law in a Philosophy of Necessities and Needs; 9.1.2 Studying and Practicing Medicine; 9.1.3 Galenism; 9.2 Physicians and Oeconomia; 9.2.1 Towards a Politics of Household; 9.2.2 Politicisation and Depoliticisation of Needs; 9.2.3 Avicenna's Kitâb Al-siyâsa (Politics), the Metaphysics of 'The Healing' and the Pragmatic Politicisation of Needs; 10. Money and the Doctrine of Necessities; 10.1 Locke's Doctrine of Necessities; 10.1.1 A Changing Perspective: Corpuscularianism; 10.1.2 Necessities; 10.1.3 The (Sometimes Dark) Politics of Necessities; 10.2 Usury, Interest and Science; 10.2.1 Fraternal Love v. Love of Money; 10.2.2 The Acts Against Usury; 10.2.3 The Concerns of Gerard Malynes; 10.2.4 The Scholars' Discussion; 10.2.5