Download or read book Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law written by Hunter Ian Hunter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays 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.