Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law
Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen
Published on 3. November 2020
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Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-4744-4923-6 (ISBN)
Description
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. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays 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.
Reviews / Votes
No-one has done more than Knud Haakonssen to facilitate and lead the study of Protestant Natural Law in early modern Europe, and to explain its significance for moral and political philosophy. This volume repays that achievement with an excellent set of essays on the subject. A combination of outstanding contributors, well-chosen topics, and broad geographical coverage ensures that the volume is not only an apt tribute to Haakonssen, but will be an essential reference-point for future development of the field. * John Robertson, Professor Emeritus of the History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4923-6 (9781474449236)
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Persons
Richard Whatmore is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of What is Intellectual History? (Polity, 2015), Against War and Empire (Yale University Press, 2012) and Republicanism and the French Revolution (OUP, 2000). He is the co-editor of Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Companion to Intellectual History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), David Hume (Ashgate, 2013), Advances in Intellectual History (Palgrave, 2006) and Economy, Polity and Society: Essays in British Intellectual History, 2 volumes (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Content
Introduction
Part I: Rights, Religion and Morality
1. Calvinists, Arminians, Socinians: Popular Sovereignty and Natural Rights in Early Modern Political ThoughtJames Moore
2. Truth and Toleration in the Early Modern PeriodMaria Rosa Antognazza
3. The History of the History of Ethics and Emblematic PassagesAaron Garrett
4. Natural law and Natural Rights in Early Enlightenment Copenhagen Mads Jensen
Part II: Natural Law and the Philosophers
5. Natural Equality and Natural Law in Locke's Two TreatisesKari Saastamoinen
6. Dignity and Equality in Pufendorf's Natural Law TheorySimone Zurbuchen
7. Theory and Practice in the Natural Law of Christian ThomasiusIan Hunter
8. The 'iura connata' in the Natural Law of Christian WolffFrank Grunert
9. Hume's Peculiar Definition of JusticeJames A. Harris
Part III: Rights and Reform
10. Economising Natural Law: Pufendorf on Moral Quantities and Sumptuary LegislationMichael Seidler
11. The Legacy of Smith's Jurisprudence in Late-Eighteenth-Century EdinburghJohn W. Cairns
12. Declaring Rights: Bentham and the Rights of ManDavid Lieberman
13. Rights After the RevolutionsRichard Whatmore
Index
Part I: Rights, Religion and Morality
1. Calvinists, Arminians, Socinians: Popular Sovereignty and Natural Rights in Early Modern Political ThoughtJames Moore
2. Truth and Toleration in the Early Modern PeriodMaria Rosa Antognazza
3. The History of the History of Ethics and Emblematic PassagesAaron Garrett
4. Natural law and Natural Rights in Early Enlightenment Copenhagen Mads Jensen
Part II: Natural Law and the Philosophers
5. Natural Equality and Natural Law in Locke's Two TreatisesKari Saastamoinen
6. Dignity and Equality in Pufendorf's Natural Law TheorySimone Zurbuchen
7. Theory and Practice in the Natural Law of Christian ThomasiusIan Hunter
8. The 'iura connata' in the Natural Law of Christian WolffFrank Grunert
9. Hume's Peculiar Definition of JusticeJames A. Harris
Part III: Rights and Reform
10. Economising Natural Law: Pufendorf on Moral Quantities and Sumptuary LegislationMichael Seidler
11. The Legacy of Smith's Jurisprudence in Late-Eighteenth-Century EdinburghJohn W. Cairns
12. Declaring Rights: Bentham and the Rights of ManDavid Lieberman
13. Rights After the RevolutionsRichard Whatmore
Index