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. 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

Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law

Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen