See also:JEAN See also:BARBEYRAC (1674–1744)
, See also:French jurist, the See also:nephew of See also:Charles See also:Barbeyrac, a distinguished physician of See also:Montpellier, was See also:born at See also:Beziers in See also:Lower See also:Languedoc on the 15th of See also:March 1674
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He removed with his See also:family into See also:Switzerland after the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes, and there studied See also:jurisprudence
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After spending some tithe at See also:Geneva and See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, he became See also:professor of belles-lettres in the French school of See also:Berlin
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Thence, in 1711, he was called to the professorship of See also:history and See also:civil See also:law at See also:Lausanne, and finally settled as professor of public law at See also:Groningen
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He died on the 3rd of March 1744
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His fame rests chiefly on the See also:preface and notes to his See also:translation of See also:Pufendorf's See also:treatise De Jure Naturae et Gentium
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In fundamental principles he follows almost entirely_Locke and Pufendorf; but he See also:works out with See also:great skill the theory of moral See also:obligation, referring it to the command or will of See also:God
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He indicates the distinction, See also:developed more fully by See also:Thomasius and See also:Kant, between the legal and the moral qualities of See also:action
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The principles of See also:international law he reduces to those of the law of nature, and combats, in so doing, many of the positions taken up by See also:Grotius
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He rejects the notion that See also:sovereignty in any way resembles See also:property, and makes even See also:marriage a See also:matter of civil See also:contract
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Barbeyrac also translated Grotius's De Jure See also:Belli et Pacis, See also:Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae, and Pufendorf's smaller treatise De Officio Hominis et Civis
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Among his own productions are a treatise, De la morale See also:des peres, a history of See also:ancient See also:treaties contained in the Supplement au See also:grand See also:corps diplomatique, and the curious Traite du jeu (1709), in which he defends the morality of See also:games of See also:chance
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