Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law

A celebratory collection of essays on philosophy, rights and natural law, inspired by the work of Knud Haakonssen 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 p