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.
Abelard, Peter.- Al-Ghazali (Ab mid al-Ghazl).- Alighieri,
Dante.- Al-Kindi (Ab Ysuf Yaqb b. Isq al-Kind).- Althusius,
Johannes.- Aquinas, Thomas.- Aristotles 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, Niccolņ.- Marsilius of Padua.- Montaigne, Michel
de.- Montesquieu.- More, Thomas.- Ockham, William.- Pascal, Blaise.- Pico
della Mirandola.- Plato.- Polybius.- Ptolemy of Lucca.- Pufendorf,
Samuel.- Quesnay, Franēois (Méré 1694 Versailles 1774).- Rousseau,
Jean-Jacques: Law.- Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of
Shaftesbury).- Spinoza, Baruch.- Suįrez, Francisco (15481617).- Thomasius,
Christian.- Ubaldis, Baldus de.- Vico, Giambattista.- Voltaire.
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 Pontifķcia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and member of the Council of the German Speaking International Andrįssy University, Budapest.
