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BURLAMAQUI, JEAN JACQUES (1694–1748)

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BURLAMAQUI, See also:JEAN JACQUES (1694–1748) , Swiss publicist, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 24th of See also:June 1694. At the See also:age of twenty-five he was designated honorary See also:professor of See also:ethics and the See also:law of nature at the university of Geneva. Before taking up the See also:appointment he travelled through See also:France and See also:England, and made the acquaintance of the most eminent writers of the See also:period. On his return he began his lectures, and soon gained a wide reputation, from the simplicity of his See also:style and the precision of his views. He continued to lecture for fifteen years, when he was compelled on See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health to resign. His See also:fellow-citizens at once elected him a member of the See also:council of See also:state, and he gained as high a reputation for his See also:practical sagacity as he had for his theoretical knowledge. He died at Geneva on the 3rd of See also:April 1748. His See also:works were Principes du See also:droit naturel (1747), and Principes du droit politique (1751). These have passed through many See also:editions, and were very extensively used as See also:text-books. Burlamaqui's style is See also:simple and clear, and his arrangement of the material See also:good. His fundamental principle may be described as rational See also:utilitarianism, and in many ways it resembles that of See also:Cumberland.

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