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(2009) A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Dordrecht, Springer.
While Malebranche's Recherche de la généralité ("general" law and "general" will) is the dominant strain in French jurisprudence, finally shaping the legalpolitical thought of Montesquieu and of Rousseau, there is a recessive (but not negligible) strain which is 'skeptical" (descended from Montaigne and Charron) and which emerges in its strongest form in the legal-political-moral thought of Voltaire. Since généralité and French Pyrrhonisme (between them) dominate French practical thought in early modernity, a chapter on Voltaire is fully warranted.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2964-5_18
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Riley, P. (2009)., Voltaire's skeptical jurisprudence: contra Leibnizian optimism in candide, in E. Pattaro, D. Canale, H. Hofmann & P. Riley (eds.), A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 521-531.
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