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    Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf (8 January 1632 – 26 October 1694) was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. He was born Samuel...
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    natural rights included Hugo de Groot (1625), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Samuel von Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) and Immanuel...
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    century to the writings of Henry de Bracton in the 13th century and Samuel von Pufendorf in the 17th century—into a coherent principle on how property can...
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  • Montesquieu Karl Popper Samuel von Pufendorf Joseph Schumpeter Adam Smith Alexis de Tocqueville Edmund Burke James Burnham Samuel Taylor Coleridge Juan...
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  • Bossuet (1627 – 1704). Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677). Rationalism. Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694). Social contract theorist. John Locke (1632–1704). Major...
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    Swedish Pomerania and studied at Lund University under philosopher Samuel von Pufendorf. He entered Swedish war service in 1673 and participated with distinction...
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  • remained influential, and were further expressed in the works of Samuel von Pufendorf and Christian Wolff. Yet, in the second half of the 18th century...
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    defined as not being a nation state. The 17th-century historian Samuel von Pufendorf famously described the empire as having an "unusual form of government"...
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    Nash Novalis Ernst Ottwalt Axel Oxenstierna Henri Pittier Samuel von Pufendorf Gerhard von Rad Werner Rolfinck Erich Roth (1910–1947), Nazi Gestapo member...
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    Lutheran orthodoxy against the natural law views of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius, and being an active polemicist against Roman...
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    that executeth the Law is in it, and not above it". In Germany, Samuel von Pufendorf recapitulated Hobbes's explanation of the origin of the state as...
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    Duke of Orléans. The prince's education was led by the scholars Samuel von Pufendorf and Ezekiel Spanheim. Charles undertook his cavalier tour to Switzerland...
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  • Johannes Widekindi was appointed in 1665, later accompanied by Samuel von Pufendorf. Several of the early historiographers royal were foreigners, but...
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    It is a less theoretical work than the writings of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and other comparable thinkers, and as much a work of advocacy as...
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  • Bengali) 1661 Elementa jurisprudentiae universalis libri duo by Samuel von Pufendorf 1662 A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of...
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  • naturalists and the positivists. In the former camp was German jurist Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), who stressed the supremacy of the law of nature over...
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    Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Rutherforth, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Christian Wolff. The...
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    It is a less theoretical work than the writings of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and other comparable thinkers, and as much a work of advocacy as...
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    property sets him apart from previous theorists such as Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and John Locke. Lamb says it demonstrates Paine's commitment to foundational...
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  • Johann Augustus Eberhard dies. 1859: Samuel Alexander born. 1918: Georg Cantor dies. 1632: Samuel von Pufendorf born. 1642: Galileo Galilei dies. 1905:...
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  • Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and lens maker (b. 1633) 1694 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German historian, economist, and jurist (b. 1632) 1706 – Iyasu I...
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    have been suggested to be the author, including the German jurist Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), whose name was on the German edition, but the issue...
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    Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, and John Locke. In the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes founded a contractualist...
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    natural law proposed by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, and Samuel von Pufendorf. It emerged from the view that emphasizes how the ideas of nature...
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    (Cambridge and Oxford). It was extensively discussed by Hugo Grotius and Samuel von Pufendorf. Grotius drew heavily on De Officiis in his major work, On the Law...
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  • (1900–1993) Karl Löwith (1897–1973) Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), moral and political philosopher Johann Karl Friedrich...
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    1679–1680), was notably brutal in his treatment of the locals. The rule of Rutger von Ascheberg (governor-general 1680–1693), proved more lenient. The assimilation...
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    theory and his reading of Thomas Hobbes. Reacting to the ideas of Samuel von Pufendorf and John Locke was also driving his thought. All three thinkers had...
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    improbable, if only because the land provinces felt threatened by Bernhard von Galen, the Prince-Bishop of Münster, who made territorial demands on parts...
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  • (1720–1794) Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694) Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) Beatus Rhenanus (also known as Beatus Bild) (1485–1547) Friedrich Carl von Savigny...
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