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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Ian, Author.

Contributor:

Hunter, Ian, 1949- editor.

Whatmore, Richard, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law--Miscellanea.

Natural law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights in this field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Rights, Religion and Morality

1. Calvinists, Arminians, Socinians: Popular Sovereignty and Natural Rights in Early Modern Political Thought

2. Truth and Toleration in Early Modern Thought

3. The History of the History of Ethics and Emblematic Passages

4. Natural Law and Natural Rights in Early Enlightenment Copenhagen

Part II: Natural Law and the Philosophers

5. Natural Equality and Natural Law in Locke’s Two Treatises

6. Dignity and Equality in Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory

7. Theory and Practice in the Natural Law of Christian Thomasius

8. The ‘Iura Connata’ in the Natural Law of Christian Wolff

9. Hume’s Peculiar Definition of Justice

Part III: Rights and Reform

10. Economising Natural Law: Pufendorf on Moral Quantities and Sumptuary Legislation

11. The Legacy of Smith’s Jurisprudence in Late Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

12. Declaring Rights: Bentham and the Rights of Man

13. Rights After the Revolutions

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474449243

1474449247

9781474460200

1474460208

OCLC:

1312726622