Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law : : Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen / / Ian Hunter, Richard Whatmore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hunter, Ian,; Whatmore, Richard,
• MitwirkendeR: Antognazza, Maria Rosa,; Cairns, John W.,; Garrett, Aaron,; Grunert, Frank,; Harris, James A.,; Hunter, Ian,; Jensen, Mads Langballe,; Lieberman, David,; Moore, James,; Saastamoinen, Kari,; Seidler, Michael,; Whatmore, Richard,; Zurbuchen, Simone,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

A celebratory collection of essays on philosophy, rights and natural law, inspired by the work of Knud HaakonssenOver 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. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how natural law in early modern Europe was not a unified doctrine, but a field of crosscutting idioms that prosecuted competing political and juridical programmes.The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These studies acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances. Key FeaturesCrosses national, disciplinary, intellectual and ideological bordersDeals with a wide range of contexts and aspects over a chronological period from the Reformation to the aftermath of the French RevolutionCovers an unusually wide range of questions at the intersection between natural law, religion and politicsContributors include Maria Rosa Antognazza, James Harris, Simone Zurbuchen and John Cairns"

Table of 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