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This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike. 

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This Handbook discusses representative philosophers in the history of the philosophy of law and social philosophy, giving clear concise expert definitions and explanations of key personalities and their ideas. It provides an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike.

Author Biography

Gianfrancesco Zanetti taught Jurisprudence and Political Theory in the University of Bologna, University of Modena, Military Academy of Modena (course for the Carabinieri Cadets), Hunter College CUNY (New York), UC Berkeley.
Mortimer Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland. He is past President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). 

Stephan Kirste holds the Chair for the Philosophy of Law and Head of the Department for Legal Theory, International and European Law at the University of Salzburg, Professor Colaborador at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and member of the Council of the German Speaking International Andrássy University, Budapest.

Table of Contents

Abelard, Peter.- Al-Ghazali (Ab mid al-Ghazl).- Alighieri, Dante.- Al-Kindi (Ab Ysuf Yaqb b. Isq al-Kind).- Althusius, Johannes.- Aquinas, Thomas.- Aristotle's Legal and Social Philosophy.- Augustine of Hippo.- Avicenna (Ibn Sn; Ab Al al-usayn ibn Abd Allh ibn Sn).- Bartolus.- Bodin, Jean.- Bracton, Henry de.- Calvin, John (Jehan).- Campanella, Tommaso.- Casas, Bartolomé de Las.- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.- Confucius.- Cusa, Nicholas of.- Duns Scotus, Ioannis.- Fortescue, John.- Grotius, Hugo.- Harrington, James.- Hobbes, Thomas.- Hume and Law.- Hutcheson, Francis.- John of Salisbury.- Laozi.- Locke, John.- Luther, Martin.- Machiavelli, Niccolò.- Marsilius of Padua.- Montaigne, Michel de.- Montesquieu.- More, Thomas.- Ockham, William.- Pascal, Blaise.- Pico della Mirandola.- Plato.- Polybius.- Ptolemy of Lucca.- Pufendorf, Samuel.- Quesnay, François (Méré 1694 – Versailles 1774).- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Law.- Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury).- Spinoza, Baruch.- Suárez, Francisco (1548–1617).- Thomasius, Christian.- Ubaldis, Baldus de.- Vico, Giambattista.- Voltaire.

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Presents the famous personalities of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Provides a clear concise expert definition and explanation of the key personalities in the field Represents an essential reference for experts and newcomers alike

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