title: Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment
author:  Knud Haakonssen 
description: "...an interesting and important set of historical studies, written clearly and straightforwardly, resting on massive scholarship, and arguing for some challenging theses about matters that are still of lively theoretical interest." J.B. Schneewind, The Johns Hopkins University<br /><br />"Natural Law and Moral Philosophy is an important canvass of a cultue at work. It is a study not simply of the rich linguistic matrix that constituted and supported the culture, but also of the publications, translations, and institutions that forged the moral personality for two centuries in Protestant Europe and North America." Martha K. Zebrowski, American Political Science Review<br /><br />"Natural Law and Moral Philosophy is a singularly valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of legal and political theory." Ronald Hamowy, Eighteenth Century Scotland
zlib_text: the elements of moral philosophy
  
  natural law and
  enlightenment classics
  Knud Haakonssen
  General Editor
  
  Front view of old Marischal College
  
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  natural law and
  enlightenment classics
  The Elements of Moral
  Philosophy, in Three Books
  with
  A Brief Account of the Nature,
  Progress, and Origin of Philosophy
  David Fordyce
  Edited and with an Introduction by
  Thomas Kennedy
  liberty fund
  Indianapolis
  
  This book is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a foundation established to
  encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.
  The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif
  for our endpapers is the earliest-known written appearance of the word
  ‘‘freedom’’ (amagi), or ‘‘liberty.’’ It is taken from a clay document written
  about 2300 b.c. in the Sumeri