Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law

Introduction; Part I: Rights, Religion and Morality: 1. Calvinists, Arminians, Socinians: Popular sovereignty and natural rights in early modern political thought, James Moore; 2. Truth and Toleration in the Early Modern Period, Maria Rosa Antognazza; 3. The History of the History of Ethics and Emblematic Passages, Aaron 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 Treatises, Kari Saastamoinen; 6. Dignity and Equality in Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory, Simone Zurbuchen; 7. Theory and Practice in the Natural Law of Christian Thomasius, Ian Hunter; 8. The 'iura connata' in the Natural Law of Christian Wolff, Frank Grunert; 9. Hume’s peculiar definition of justice, James A. Harris; Part III: Rights and Reform: 10. Economizing Natural Law: Pufendorf on Moral Quantities and Sumptuary Legislation, Michael Seidler; 11. The Legacy of Smith’s Jurisprudence in Late-Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, John W. Cairns; 12. Declaring Rights: Bentham and the Rights of Man, David Lieberman; 13. Rights After the Revolutions, Richard Whatmore; Index.

Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Queensland. He is author of The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is co-editor of Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Essays on Church, State and Politics (Liberty Fund, 2007), The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Heresy in Transition (Ashgate, 2005) and Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). 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).