Gabriel Bonnot de Mably and modern natural law: an attempt at reassessment

Gabriel Bonnot de Mably et le droit naturel moderne: un essai de réévaluation

Jean Dellemotte () and Julie Ferrand ()
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Jean Dellemotte: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Julie Ferrand: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne

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Abstract: Studies on Mably have generally neglected what modern natural law brought to his thought, or summed it up to the influence of Locke's Treatises on Civil Government. In this paper, we put into perspective the Lockean preference assigned to Mably - as their disagreements on the topics of land ownership and its unequal consequences seem insurmountable - and reassess Mably's implicit and explicit borrowings from other authors of this tradition, such as Hobbes, Pufendorf and Grotius. Our conclusion is that he gets elements from each of them likely to feed his own political and social ideal.

Keywords: Gabriel Bonnot de Mably; Droit naturel moderne; Républicanisme; Propriété; Inégalités; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Cahiers d’Economie Politique = Papers in political economy, 2024, 2024/1 (84), pp.7-50. ⟨10.3917/cep1.084.0007⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/cep1.084.0007

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