A Philosophical Enquiry into the Laws of Nature

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Laws of Nature

work by Cumberland

Also known as: “De Legibus Naturae, Disquisitio Philosophica”

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…Legibus Naturae, Disquisitio Philosophica (1672; A Philosophical Enquiry into the Laws of Nature, 1750). Although it is basically an attack on the views of Thomas Hobbes, the book begins by a consideration of those of Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist and theologian. Grotius had based the authenticity of the laws of…
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