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Table of Contents
Abstract...........................................................................................................................iii
Preface............................................................................................................................vii
Acknowledgements.........................................................................................................ix
CHAPTER ONE: SUBJECTIVE RIGHT AND THE SCIENCE OF JURISPRUDENCE IN THE NOVA
METHODUS. .......................................................................................................................... 1
Section 1: Introduction..................................................................................................... 1
Section 2: General Remarks on Parts I and II of the Nova Methodus ............................. 2
Section 3: The “New Method” of jurisprudence and its definitions: jus and obligatio... 8
Section 4: The derivation of precepts: the three degrees of natural right...................... 24
Section 5: Chapter summary and conclusion................................................................. 37
CHAPTER TWO: JUSTICE, LOVE, AND THE MODES OF RIGHT IN THE ELEMENTA JURIS
NATURALIS.......................................................................................................................... 42
Section 1: Introduction................................................................................................... 42
Section 2: The just as equity; justice as virtue of the mean ........................................... 46
Section 3: Right, just, justice, and the nature of love .................................................... 54
Section 4: The normative logic of right ......................................................................... 77
Section 5: Leibniz’s demonstration of ‘the good person is one who loves everyone.’ . 88
Section 6: Concluding considerations............................................................................ 98
CHAPTER THREE: THE MIDDLE PERIOD: IUS, CARITAS, AND THE CODEX JURIS GENTIUM
DIPLOMATICI .................................................................................................................... 103
Section 1: Introduction................................................................................................. 103
Section 2: Early letters: Hobbes, Arnauld, Johann Friedrich....................................... 104
Section 3: The late 1670’s: Right, right reason, and justice as caritas sapientis......... 106
Section 4: Preface to the Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus..................................... 127
Section 5: Chapter conclusion ..................................................................................... 138
CHAPTER FOUR: LEIBNIZ’S DEMONSTRATIVE METHOD.................................................... 139
Section 1: Introduction................................................................................................. 139
Section 2: The distinction between necessary and contingent truths........................... 140
Section 3. Demonstration in general............................................................................ 147
Section 4: Definition defined....................................................................................... 152
Section 5: The case of the demonstrated moral conclusion......................................... 159
Section 6: Did Leibniz demonstrate the proposition ‘justice is the charity of the wise’?
...................................................................................................................................... 163
Section 7: Chapter conclusion ..................................................................................... 164
CHAPTER FIVE: MORAL DOCTRINE AS A DEMONSTRATIVE SCIENCE IN THE NOUVEAUX
ESSAIS............................................................................................................................... 166
Section 1: Introduction................................................................................................. 166
Section 2: Locke on innate speculative and practical principles ................................. 167
Section 3: Leibniz on innate practical principles......................................................... 173
Section 4: Moral doctrine, pure reason, and the science of right................................. 193
Section 5: Integration of principles in virtue ............................................................... 197
Section 6: Chapter conclusion ..................................................................................... 201
CHAPTER SIX: MONITA AND MEDITATION: CAUSES AND NOTIONS IN THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT
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