From Natural Law to Political Economy: J.H.G. von Justi on State, Commerce and International Order

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From Natural Law to Political Economy: J.H.G. von Justi on State, Commerce and International Order is written by Ere Nokkala and published by LIT Verlag Münster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3643910355 (ISBN 10) and 9783643910356 (ISBN 13).

This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of the political and international thought of one of the greatest German political writers of the eighteenth-century, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1717-1771). By revisiting his conceptions of natural law, happiness, the state, universal monarchy, the balance of power and international order the study reveals a much more original and diverse thinker than has previously been assumed. Building on ideas of a passionate human nature, Justi effected a passage from natural law to political economy that took into account the development of commercialism. The book firmly situates Justi in the German Enlightenment, and the German Enlightenment in a broader European context.