Heineccius, J: Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, the Laws of Natureand Nations, With Supplements and a Discourse (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics) - Softcover

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<p>George Turnbull’s eighteenth-century translation of <strong><em>A Methodical System of Universal Law</em></strong> was his major effort to convey continental natural law to Britain, thus making Heineccius’s natural jurisprudence more accessible to English-speaking audiences. Turnbull includes extensive comments on Heineccius’s text and also presents his own philosophical work, <em>A Discourse upon the Nature and Origin of Moral and Civil Laws</em>.</p> <p><strong>Johann Gottlieb Heineccius</strong> (1681–1741) studied theology at Leipzig and later law at the newly founded (1694) University of Halle, where he became a pupil of Christian Thomasius.</p> <p><strong>Thomas Ahnert</strong> is a Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.</p> <p><strong>Peter Schröder</strong> is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at University College, London.</p>

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