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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. 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.
Contents
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