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Contributions to philosophy, rights and natural law inspired by the work of Knud Haakonssen
Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has been centrally interested in the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how in early-modern Europe natural law was less a unified doctrine than a field of cross-cutting idioms in which competing political and juridical programs were prosecuted for many cross-cutting purposes.
The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. In doing so they pay tribute to the work of Knud Haakonssen who, over four decades of scholarly activity, uncovered this field in all of its variety and depth. Not only do these studies acknowledge his immense academic achievement but they also offer new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances.
Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Rights, Religion and Morality1. 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 Philosophers5. 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 Reform10. Economising 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
About the author
Ian Hunter is Ian Hunter is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 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).
