{"id":8980819181862,"title":"Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations","handle":"institutes-of-divine-jurisprudence-with-selections-from-foundations-of-the-law-of-nature-and-nations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christian Thomasius\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Thomas Ahnert\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: 9780865975194\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1688, Thomasius’s \u003cem\u003eInstitutiones jurisprudentiae divinae\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstitutes of Divine Jurisprudence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e) attempted to draw a clear distinction between natural and revealed law and to emphasize that human reason was able to know the precepts of natural law without the aid of Scripture. Thomasius also argued that his orthodox Lutheran opponents had failed to understand this distinction and thereby had confused reason and Scripture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume also contains significant selections from his \u003cem\u003eFundamenta juris naturae et gentium\u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cem\u003eFoundations of the Law of Nature and Nations\u003c\/em\u003e), published in 1705. 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