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Although Bodin placed history "above all sciences," he actually wished to extract from it the materials for a transcendent political philosophy and a universal jurisprudence.
It was then, without access to library or books, that Pufendorf wrote his first major work, Two Books on the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence (Elementorum jurisprudentiae universalis libri II, Pufendorf 1660, 1999), which is explicitly based on Grotius and Hobbes.
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General jurisprudence, as this philosophical inquiry about the nature of law is called, is meant to be universal.
In the last century and half, secularism has become the new universal for jurisprudence, morality and political systems in the west.
The two disciplines were married in theory in Institution of Universal History and its Connection with Jurisprudence by François Baudouin (1520 73) and the Method for the Easy Understanding of History by Jean Bodin (1530 96).
This is in sharp counterpoint to erudite cosmopolitans such as Moseneke or Kenya's Mutunga, whose records and jurisprudence suggest a commitment to universal standards of human rights and the rule of law, to which local political and social customs must adhere.
Pure jurisprudence is thus the science of universal laws of human action.
"Universal jurisdiction holds out the promise of greater justice," the book says, but in such cases, the jurisprudence "is disparate, disjointed and poorly understood".
Lectures on jurisprudence.
There is no jurisprudence".
Historical jurisprudence opposed not only attempts at codification but also those rationalist thinkers who sought to derive legal theories from general and universal principles without respect to the characteristics and customs of a particular people.
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