The political context; the natural-law debate; "De Legibus Naturae" - I; the Royal Society and Hobbism; voluntarism and natural philosophy; "De Legibus Naturae" - II; "De Legibus Naturae" and the natural-law tradition; conclusion - taming the leviathan.
Leaves the reader with a better grasp not only of Cumberland's work
but also of the character of late seventeenth-century English
intellectual history more generally.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*
Thoroughly researched and attractively nuanced study... has
something for everyone: for cultural as well as political
historians of Restoration England.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
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