256 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
256 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
256 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
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Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the universe and all of the beings and events within it are fully determined by their causes. This has led... Read more
1. Introductory remarks 2. The role of the attributes in the generation of right 3. The physics of right 4. Natural right I: the logic of existential consciousness 5. Natural right II: ethics of essential consciousness 6. Juridical physics 7. Conclusion
Biography
Stephen Connelly is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Warwick
