Archives Internationales D'Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, 37.
1: Introduction to Natural Law and to the Work of Montesquieu --;I: The History of Natural Law --;II: Montesquieu's Life and Works --;III: The Problem of Montesquieu and Natural Law --;2: The Originality of Montesquieu's Method --;I: The Problem of Montesquieu's Method --;II: The Prior Existence of Natural Law --;III: Civil Law and Natural Law in the Esprit des lois --;3: Montesquieu and Empiricism in Natural Law --;I: Physical and Moral Concepts in Natural Law --;II: The Example of the Animals --;4: The State of Nature and the Origin of Society --;I: Montesquieu and the State of Nature --;II: The Origin of Society --;III: The Historicity of the State of Nature --;IV: The Original Contract and its Implications --;5: Montesquieu and Empiricism in Positive Law: The Diversity of Governments and Laws --;I: The Diversity of Governments --;II: The Diversity of Civil Law --;6: Rationalism in Positive Law: Montesquieu the Reformer --;I: The Criminal Law --;II: Slavery --;III: Property --;IV: International Relations --;7: Montesquieu's Conception of Law --;I: Montesquieu's Conception of God --;II: Montesquieu and the Laws of Science --;III: Montesquieu and the Moral Law --;Conclusion.
In the last hundred years, the philosophy of natural law has suffered a fate that could hardly have been envisaged by the seventeenth and eighteenth century exponents of its universality and eternity: it has become old-fashioned.