Natural Law and the Theory of Property

This book puts the political philosophies of Locke and Hume in historical perspective. Stephen Buckle argues that Locke takes up the basic themes of modern natural law theory as expounded by Grotius and Pufendorf. He then argues that, rather than being a departure from this tradition, the moral sense theory of Hutcheson and Hume represents a not entirely successful attempt to underpin the natural law theory with an adequate moral psychology.