TY - BOOK ID - 25484208 TI - Roman law in the state of nature : the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law AU - Straumann, Benjamin AU - Cooper, Belinda PY - 2015 SN - 9780745652641 9780745652658 9781107092907 0745652670 9780745652672 0745652672 1107092906 1107087627 9781107087620 9780745645476 9781316104118 9781107458086 9781316143629 9781107470163 9780745652665 0745652646 0745652654 1107458080 1316310086 1316289427 1316104117 1316246744 131623729X 1316235408 1316250539 1316252426 1107470161 1316254321 131624864X 1316143627 9781316248645 9781316254325 9781316250532 9781316252420 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Naturrecht. KW - Römisches Recht. KW - History & Theory. KW - Grotius, Hugo, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. KW - 504.062 KW - 504.062 Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development KW - Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development KW - Natural law KW - Natural law. KW - Political science KW - Roman law KW - History. KW - Influence. KW - Droit naturel KW - Droit romain KW - Lois KW - Histoire KW - Influence KW - Lois. KW - Histoire. KW - Law KW - Roman influences KW - History KW - De Groot, Huig KW - De Groot, Huigh KW - Grotius, Hugo KW - Groot, Hugo de, KW - Grozio, Ugo, KW - Grot︠s︡iĭ, Gugo, KW - De Groot, Hugo, KW - Grocio, Hugo, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25484208 AB - Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe. ER -