Willem Van der Muelen (1659–1739), jurist and member of the Dutch urban elite, was the author of a huge and widely read commentary on Hugo Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis. Defined by the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico as a simple ‘embellisher’ of Grotius, but in recent times hailed as ‘the Dutch Locke’, Van der Muelen certainly deserves more attention. The essay will focus on the justification of political resistance to the sovereign, a particularly controversial issue both in early-modern political thought and in Grotius himself. I argue that Van der Muelen, far from being a simple ‘embellisher’ of Grotius, adopts a more radical view based on a strong individualistic and utilitarian anthropology, bridging the Scholastic and monarchomach ideas of resistance – to which he is still indebted – with modern natural law jurisprudence. Thus he offers an interesting companion to Locke as well as a source of inspiration for later commentators such as Jean Barbeyrac.

威廉·范德·穆伦（Willem Van der Muelen，1659年至1739年），法学家和荷兰城市精英成员，他撰写了一篇关于雨果·格罗蒂乌斯（ Hugo Grotius）的《德·贝里·阿佩克斯》（De iure belli ac pacis）的评论文章。那不勒斯哲学家Giambattista Vico将其定义为Grotius的简单“代言人”，但最近被誉为“荷兰人的洛克”，范德穆伦当然值得更多关注。这篇文章将侧重于政治抵抗主权的理由，这在早期现代政治思想和格罗蒂乌斯本人中都是一个特别有争议的问题。我认为范德穆伦（Van der Muelen）并非是格罗蒂乌斯（Grotius）的简单“拥护者”，而是基于强大的个人主义和功利主义人类学，采用了更为激进的观点，将学派和君主制的抵抗思想（他仍然对之抵抗）与现代联系起来。自然法学。因此，他为洛克提供了一个有趣的伴侣，并为后来的评论员（例如让·巴贝拉克）提供了灵感来源。