Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law

Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen

Ian Hunter, Richard Whatmore (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4923-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4744-4923-9 / 1474449239
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4923-6 / 9781474449236
Zustand	Neuware