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

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 mode...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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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