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Also Known As lex naturalis • iusnaturalism • jus naturale

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
Freiherr von Pufendorf
Samuel, baron von Pufendorf
German jurist and historian
William of Auxerre
French philosopher
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
German jurist
Léon Duguit
French jurist
James Lorimer
Scottish legal philosopher
Emmerich de Vattel
Swiss jurist