The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith by Knud Haakonssen
The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith
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Knud Haakonssen
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The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith

Knud Haakonssen

252 pages • first pub 1981 (view editions)

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Combining the methods of the modern philosopher with those of the historian of ideas, Knud Haakonssen presents an interpretation of the philosophy of law which Adam Smith developed out of - and partly in response to - David Hume's theory of justic...

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