Philosophy, rights and natural law : essays in honour of Knud Haakonssen / edited by Ian Hunter and Richard Whatmore

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-1-4744-4922-9

EAN : 9781474449229

Droit naturel -- 1500-1800

Droits de l'homme -- 1500-1800

Morale -- 1500-1800

Philosophie politique -- 1500-1800

Classification Dewey : 340.112

Hunter, Ian (1949-...) (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Whatmore, Richard (1968-....) (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Résumé / Abstract : "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. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how natural law in early modern Europe was not a unified doctrine, but a field of crosscutting idioms that prosecuted competing political and juridical programmes. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These studies 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." -- 4ème de couverture