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ISBN: 1-139-17290-5

Content: This major contribution to the history of philosophy provides the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and contractarianism, and offers an extensive study of the Scottish Enlightenment. The time span covered is considerable: from the natural law theories of Grotius and Suarez in the early seventeenth century to the American Revolution and the beginnings of utilitarianism. After a detailed survey of modern natural law theory, the book focuses on the Scottish Enlightenment and its European and American connections. Knud Haakonssen explains the relationship between natural law and civic humanist republicanism, and he shows the relevance of these ideas for the understanding of David Hume and Adam Smith. The result is a completely revised background to modern ideas of liberalism and communitarianism.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Scottish Enlightenment in the history of ideas -- 0.1 The Scottish Enlightenment -- 0.2 The history of ideas -- Natural law in the seventeenth century -- 1.1 Francis Suárez -- 1.2 Natural law and Protestantism -- 1.3 Hugo Grotius -- 1.4 Thomas Hobbes -- 1.5 The German debate -- 1.6 Samuel Pufendorf -- 1.7 Reactions to Pufendorf -- 1.8 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz -- 1.9 Nathaniel Culverwell -- 1.10 Richard Cumberland -- 1.11 John Locke -- 1.12 Transitions to eighteenth-century Scottish moral thought -- 1.13 Conclusion -- Natural law and moral realism: The civic humanist synthesis in Francis Hutcheson and George Turnbull -- 2.1 Interpreting Scottish moral philosophy -- 2.2 Hutcheson: Voluntarism, realism, and egoism -- 2.3 Hutcheson's moral realism and cognitivism -- 2.4 The political ambiguity of Hutcheson's moral theory -- 2.5 Natural jurisprudence in Hutcheson's system -- 2.6 The coherence of Hutcheson's thought -- 2.7 Hutcheson and the development of Scottish moral thought -- 2.8 Turnbull and Heineccius -- 2.9 Natural law and Harringtonianism -- 2.10 Conclusion -- Between superstition and enthusiasm: David Hume's theory of justice, government, and politics -- 3.1 The politics of religion -- 3.2 Morals - found or constructed -- 3.3 Justice -- 3.4 The basis for authority -- 3.5 Opinion and the science of politics -- 3.6 The distribution of justice -- 3.7 The role of rights -- 3.8 The right to govern -- 3.9 Above parties -- 3.10 The stability of Great Britain -- Adam Smith out of context: His theory of rights in Prussian perspective -- 4.1 Smith's theory of rights -- 4.2 The jurisprudence of Samuel von Cocceji -- 4.3 Smith and Cocceji compared -- 4.4 Kantian themes in Smith -- John Millar and the science of a legislator -- 5.1 Introduction. , 5.2 A theory of justice and rights -- 5.3 A theory of law -- 5.4 A theory of government -- 5.5 A theory of property -- 5.6 A question of ideology -- 5.7 A role for history -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Thomas Reid's moral and political philosophy -- 6.1 Human knowledge -- 6.2 Human agency -- 6.3 Principles of moral judgement -- 6.4 Duty and virtue -- 6.5 Natural jurisprudence -- 6.6 Property -- 6.7 Contract -- 6.8 Political jurisprudence: The contract of government -- 6.9 Rulers and ruled -- 6.10 Utopia -- 6.11 Revolution or reform -- Dugald Stewart and the science of a legislator -- 7.1 Smith or Reid -- 7.2 Elements of a theory of morals -- 7.3 Knowledge and social progress -- 7.4 Jurisprudence and political economy -- The science of a legislator in James Mackintosh's moral philosophy -- 8.1 Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart -- 8.2 The Vindiciae Gallicae -- 8.3 After Vindiciae Gallicae: Moral philosophy -- 8.4 After Vindiciae Gallicae: History and jurisprudence -- James Mill and Scottish moral philosophy -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The use and abuse of conjectural history -- 9.3 Politics in a morally well-ordered world -- From natural law to the rights of man: A European perspective on American debates -- 10.1 English and American jurisprudence -- 10.2 Law, duty, and rights -- 10.3 Rights and contractarianism -- 10.4 Natural law theory and moral philosophy in America -- 10.5 Inalienable rights -- 10.6 Evangelicalism and Christian utilitarianism -- 10.7 Self-government and obligation -- Bibliography -- Index. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-49802-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-49686-1

Language: English

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172905