Part Ⅰ.On Justice and Natural Law 45
1 Meditation on the Common Concept of Justice(c.1702-3) 45
2 Opinion on the Principles of Pufendorf(1706) 64
Part Ⅱ.On Social Life,Enlightenment and the Rule of Princes 77
3 On Natural Law 77
4 Notes on Social Life 81
5 Felicity(c.1694-8？) 82
6 Portrait of the Prince(1679) 85
7 Memoir for Enlightened Persons of Good Intention(mid-1690s) 103
Part Ⅲ.On State-Sovereignty and Hobbesian Ideas 111
8 Caesarinus Fürstenerius(De Suprematu Principum Germaaniae)(1677) 111
Part Ⅳ.On the Defense of Hapsburg Europe against France 121
9 Mars Christianissimus(Most Christian War-God)(1683) 121
10 Manifesto for the Defense of the Rights of Charles Ⅲ(1703) 146
11 Codex Iuris Gentium(Praefatio)(1693) 165
Part Ⅴ.On International Relations and International Law 165
12 On the Works of the Abbé de St Pierre(1715) 176
Observations on the Abbé's Project for Perpetual Peace(1715) 178
Letter 11 to Grimarest(1712) 183
Part Ⅵ.Political Letters 185
13 Excerpts from Letters to LandgrafErnst of Hesse-Rheinfels,Bossuet and Thomas Burnett 185
Two Letters to Landgraf Ernst of Hesse-Rheinfels(1683-91) 185
Two Letters to Bossuet concerning the Re-unification of Christendom(1692-9) 188
Three Letters to Thomas Burnett(1699-1712) 191
14 Judgment of the Works of the Earl of Shaftesbury(1712) 195
Part Ⅶ.Sovereignty and Divinity:Unpublished Manuscripts,1695-1714 199
15 An Unpublished Manuscript of Leibniz on the Allegiance Due to Sovereign Powers(1695) 199
16 Leibniz'Unpublished Remarks on Abbé Bucquoi:Divinity and Sovereignty(1711) 217
17 An Unpublished Lecture by Leibniz on the Greeks as Founders of Rational Theology:Its Relation to His'Universal Jurisprudence'(1714) 225
Critical Bibliography 241
Index 247