Philosophy, rights and natural law : essays in honour of Knud Haakonssen / edited by Ian Hunter, Richard Whatmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, Ian, 1949- editor.

Whatmore, Richard, editor.

Haakonssen, Knud, 1947- honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law--Miscellanea.

Natural law.

Philosophy--Miscellanea.

Philosophy.

Civil rights.

Civil rights--Miscellanea.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vi, 374 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Part I Rights, Religion and Morality

1 Calvinists, Arminians, Sociniaas: Popular Sovereignty and Natural Rights in Early Modern Political Thought p. 21 / James Moore

2 Truth and Toleration in Early Modern Thought p. 36 / Marua Rosa Antognazza

3 The History of the History of Ethics and Emblematic Passages p. 71 / Aaron Garrett

4 Natural Law and Natural Rights in Early Enlightenment Copenhagen p. 94 / Mads Langballe Jensen

Part II Natural Law and the Philosophers

5 Natural Equality and Natural Law in Locke's Two Treatises p. 127 / Kari Saastamoinen

6 Dignity and Equality in Pufendorf's Natural Law Theory p. 147 / Simone Zurbuchen

7 Theory and Practice in the Natural Law of Christian Thomasius p. 169 / Ian Hunter

8 The 'Iura Connata' in the Natural Law of Christian Wolff p. 196 / Frank Grunert

9 Hume's Peculiar Definition of Justice p. 216 / James A. Harris

Part III Rights and Reform

10 Economising Natural Law: Pufendorf on Moral Quantities and Sumptuary Legislation p. 241 / Michael Seidler

11 The Legacy of Smith's Jurisprudence in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh p. 278 / John W. Cairns

12 Declaring Rights: Bentham and the Rights of Man p. 306 / David Lieberman

13 Rights After the Revolutions p. 338 / Richard Whatmore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474449229

1474449220

OCLC:

1085942471