Book contents
- The Necessity of Nature
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
- The Necessity of Nature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 A Christian Science
- 2 Hobbes’s Doctrine of Necessity
- 3 Necessities, Natural Rights and Sovereignty in Leviathan
- 4 Reformers on the Necessary Knowledge
- 5 Necessity, Free Will and Conscience
- 6 The Grand Business of Nature
- 7 Robert Boyle, the Empire over Nature
- 8 Locke’s Early Writings
- 9 Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs
- 10 Money and the Doctrine of Necessities
- 11 The Scientification of Money
- 12 The Doctrine of Necessities and the (Public) Good
- Conclusions
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
9 - Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- The Necessity of Nature
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
- The Necessity of Nature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 A Christian Science
- 2 Hobbes’s Doctrine of Necessity
- 3 Necessities, Natural Rights and Sovereignty in Leviathan
- 4 Reformers on the Necessary Knowledge
- 5 Necessity, Free Will and Conscience
- 6 The Grand Business of Nature
- 7 Robert Boyle, the Empire over Nature
- 8 Locke’s Early Writings
- 9 Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs
- 10 Money and the Doctrine of Necessities
- 11 The Scientification of Money
- 12 The Doctrine of Necessities and the (Public) Good
- Conclusions
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
Locke’s knowledge of medicine, and of the main Galenist principles, indicates the type of ideas he was familiar with at an early age. Scholars have analysed the reception in the European political tradition of the Pseudo-Aristotle’s Oeconomia up to Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, where the household unites economy and politics as a kingdom. The chapter evaluates in a novel manner, in the context of the seventeenth-century liberalism, the tradition of texts that deal with the materialist anthropology of needs, including the Pseudo-Galen’s Yconomia, in which household and humanity originate in the existence of needs. In these texts the state is the sum of individuals united through the materialist principle of human needs with an arbiter entrusted to resolve disputes about reciprocal transactions.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Necessity of NatureGod, Science and Money in 17th Century English Law of Nature, pp. 273 - 312Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023