NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Thomas Ahnert currently holds a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Research Project on "The Science of Man in Scotland" at the University of Edinburgh, and is preparing a mono graph for publication entitled, Natural Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy in the Thought of Christian Thomasius. He has also published a number of articles and reviews, inc1uding a study of Thomasius's perception of Roman Law in Ius Commune XXIV (1997). Robert von Friedeburg was educated at the universities of Hamburg and Bielefeld, and is now Professor of the History of Society at the University of Rotterdam. He has published on a wide range of historical subjects, including the following four monographs: Sündenzucht und sozialer Wandel. Earls Colne (England), Springfield und Ipswich (Neuengland) im Vergleich, ca. 1524-1690, (Stuttgart, 1993); Ländliche Gesellschaft und Obrigkeit. Gemeindeprotest und politische Mobilisierung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, (Göttingen, 1997); Widerstandsrecht und Konfessionskonflikt: Gemeiner Mann und Notwehr im deutsch-britischen Vergleich, 1530-1669, (Berlin, 1999); Kultur und Mentalität der unterständischen Schichten in der Frühen Neuzeit, (Munich,2001). Frank Gronert studied philosophy, German literature and sociology at the University of Münster in Westphalia. He obtained his doctorate in 1996 with a dissertation on the political and legal philosophy of the early German Enlightenment. For a number of years he worked within a research project on the penal theory of Spanish scholasticism at the University of Basel, and taught legal and social thought at the university in Vechta. He has also worked on the critical edition of the works of Christian Thomasius and has published articles on early modern practical philosophy. He is presently a member of a research project on memory and science in the eighteenth century based at the University of Giessen. His most recent work is Normbegründung und politische Legitimität. Zur Rechts­ und Staatsphilosophie der deutschen Frühaujklärung, (Tübingen, 2000). Tim Hochstrasser has studied at and held research positions within the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and is presently Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published a number of articles on themes close to the subject matter of this book, and a monograph, Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment, (Cambridge, 2000). 319 320 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS lan Hunter is Australian Professorial Fellow, Centre for the History of European Discourses, The University of Queensland, Brisbane. He is the author of a number of books and articles on the history of ethical discourses and institutions. He has completed a large study entitIed Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modem Germany, (Cambridge, 2001). Clare Jackson is University Assistant Lecturer in the History of Political Thought and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She was formerly a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where she obtained her doctorate by researching a thesis on royalist ideology in late-seventeenth century ScotIand. In addition to publishing several articles on the history of ideas in early modern ScotIand, she is also the author of a historiographical survey entitIed 'Restoration to Revolution 1660-1690' in Glenn Burgess (ed.), The New British History: Founding the Modem State 1603-1714, (London, 1999). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690. Petter Korkman studied at Universite Lyon 11 and at the University of Helsinki and is now assistant teacher in philosophy at the Abo Akademi University (in Finland.) He has published articles on naturallaw theory in Swedish and Finnish, and recently completed his doctorate .on the natural law theory of Jean Barbeyrac, which he is currentIy preparing for publication. Jon Parkin obtained his B.A from Oxford in 1991 and his doctorate from Cambridge University in 1995 with a dissertation on Richard Cumberland, published as Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De legibus naturae (Woodbridge, 1999). He was Centenary Research Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge 1995-1998 and British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King's College, London, 1998-1999. He is now Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of York. He is currently working on a project on the reception of Hobbes with the working title: Taming the Leviathan: the Reception of Hobbes in England 1640-1750. Patrick Riley is Michael Oakeshott Professor of Political Philosophy at University of Wisconsin (Madison). His scholarly interests have ranged widely across early modern European intellectual history, but have always retained an enduring focus upon the moral and political philosophy of Leibniz. Among his many books, he has published most recently Leibniz' Universal lurisprudence: lustice as Charity of the Wise, (Harvard, 1996). He has also translated and edited Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace, (Oxford, 1992). Merio Scattola teaches philosophy and history at the "Liceo Classico G.B. Brocchi" in Bassano deI Grappa (Italy) and is member of the research group on the history of political concepts at the university of Padua (www.unipd.itlconceui/). His publications include La nascita delle scienze dello stato. August Ludwig Schlözer e le discipline politiche dei Settecento tedesco, (Milan, 1994), Das Naturrecht vor dem NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 321 Naturrecht. Zur Geschichte des ius naturae im sechzehnten Jahrhundert, (Tübingen, 1999), and several contributions in books and periodicals about the role of political ideas and naturallaw in modem history. Peter Schröder is Lecturer in Early Modem European History at University College London. His scholarly interests lie in the History of Political Thought with particular emphasis on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His publications inc1ude: Die Leitbegriffe der deutschen Jugendbewegung (Münster, 1996), Christian Thomasius zur Einführung (Hamburg, 1999), Naturrecht und absolutistisches Staatsrecht (Berlin, 2(01), and Klaus Mann zur Einführung, (Hamburg, 2(02). He is currently working on a book about the reception of the French revolution in Gerrnany. Michael J. Seidler is Professor of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University. His scholarly interests inc1ude contemporary moral and political theory, applied ethics, and early modem philosophy, where he has specialized in the German naturallaw tradition, particularly Samuel Pufendorf and his influence. His publications in this area inc1ude Samuel Pufendoifs "On the Natural State of Men" (LewistonJ QueenstonILampeter, 1990); The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendoif (tr.) (Oxford, 1994); and a number of essays in journals and published conference proceedings, dealing with resistance theory, sociality, and history. He is currently preparing Pufendorf's Dissertationes academicae selectiores (1675) for the Akademie Verlag Pufendorf-Ausgabe. Future projects will inc1ude reprint editions of early English translations of Pufendorf and comparative studies of problems in seventeenth-century and contemporary social thought. Simone Zurbuchen is a member of the Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung in Potsdam, and also teaches philosophy at the university of Zürich. Her publications inc1ude Naturrecht und natürliche Religion. Zur Geschichte des Toleranzbegriffes von S. Pufendorf bis Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Würzburg, 1991), and numerous articles on natural jurisprudence and toleration in eighteenth-century Germany, France, Switzerland and England. She is currently researching a project on political theory in eighteenth-century Germany. INDEX absolutism, 143, 145, 150-2 Achenwall, Gottfried, 12, 13,92,93, 155 Althusius, Johannes, 4, 142, 151, 155, 156-7 Aquinas, Thomas, 3-4, 5-6, 7, 8,13,73,77 Argis, Boucher d', 300 Aristotelianism, 18, 153-4, 181-2 Arnauld, Antoine, XII, 60-1 Arnisaeus, Henning, 156, 157 Augustine, 53, 55, 68 Barbeyrac, Jean, X, XIII, XIV, 298, 303 and Leibniz, 195-218 his edition ofPufendorf's De Officio, XIV, 81, 196 on theodicy, 203-5 on voluntarism, 205-8, 213-16 Baxter, Richard, 40 BayJe, Pierre, 239, 270 Beckmann, Johann Christoph, 91 Bennet, Henry (Lord Arlington), 42 Bentham, Jeremy, 68 BerkeI, Abraham van, 40 BeseIer, Georg, 144 Blackburne, Richard, 32, 45 BIom, Hans, 36 Blount, Charles, 112 Böcler, Johann Heinrich, 90, 91 Bodin, Jean, 156 Bohun, Edmund, 112 Boineburg, Baron Johann Christian von, 91 323 324 INDEX Bossuet, Jacques Benigne, 59, 74 Boursier, Laurent, 62 Breithaupt, Joachim, 269 Brucker, Johann Jakob, 258, 298 Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques, 209-10 Butler, Samuel, 46 Calvinism, 8, 233, 267, 270 Carmichael, Gershorn, 122 Carpzov, Johann Benedikt, 268 Cartesianism, XII-XII, XV, 36, 38, 53, 73, 77, 81-2, 271 Clarendon, Earl of, 33, 34-5, 38,40,41,42 Coke, Sir Edward, 120 Conring, Hermann, 153, 155 contract, theories of, 109, 117,118-24,301-3,308 cosmopolitanism, 283-4 Court, Johann & Pieter, 37 Craig, Thomas, 118 Cumberland, Richard, 33-4, 43-4, 119 Dalrymple, James (Viscount Stair), 118-19, 121 Defoe, Daniel, 116 Denzer, Horst, 181 Descartes, Rene, 37,53,63, 74,198,261 Desmaizeaux, Pierre, 239 Diderot, Denis, XV, 298, 308 and naturallaw, 300-3 Domat, Jean, XIII Dreitzel, Horst, 143, 145, 146, 154, 155 Eachard, John, 34,42 Encyclopedie, 297, 299, 302 Enlightenment, definitions of, IX-XVI, 279-80, 290 Epicureanism, 42, 45, 177, 308 INDEX 325 equality, in Hobbes, 299 in Pufendorf, 300 Erastianism, 37, 39,