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AED[TYRRELL, James (1642-1718)]. A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature, According to the Principles and Method Laid Down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberla
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[TYRRELL, James (1642-1718)]. A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature, According to the Principles and Method Laid Down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberland's... Latin Treatise on that Subject... London: Richard Baldwin, 1692. 8vo. [96], 396, [6] pp. Without the A1 imprimatur leaf, but with the errata leaf and the [4] pp. of publisher's ads, which are sometimes lacking. Full modern antique-style calf. Covers panelled in blind, gilt spine with burgundy and brown morocco labels. FIRST EDITION.
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With 1/4" strip cut away across top blank margin of title-page. Early owner's ink signature on title and following page. A little light browning, but overall a very good copy in an attractive binding.
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"Tyrrell's central axiom is that natural law is reducible to the duty to seek the common good of rational beings. His lengthy preface points towards two strands in eighteenth-century ethical thought: the hyper-rationalist insistence that morality can be reduced to mathematical propositions, and the modernized Stoicism which sought to show that morality was in harmony with both natural sociability and with the pattern of the divinely created universe" (Oxford DNB). James Tyrrell was a political theorist and historian, best known for his Patriarcha non Monarcha (1681), which advocates the principle of a limited monarchy and disputes the doctrines of passive obedience and non-resistance. Tyrrell was also a close friend of John Locke's, and many see the influence of Tyrrell's thought on Locke's important Two Treatises of Government (P.M.M. 163). The present work is an abridged English translation of Richard Cumberland's (1632-1718) De legibus naturae (1672), which was produced with an eye to vindicating the law of nature against Hobbism. Wing T3584.
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