The Terror Of Natural Right

Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226184401

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The Terror of Natural Right by Dan Edelstein Pdf

Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226776948

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Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss Pdf

Six lectures delivered at the University of Chicago, Autumn, 1949, under the auspices of the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions.

Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226794303

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On the Spirit of Rights by Dan Edelstein Pdf

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773572034

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After the Terror by Ted Honderich Pdf

Ted Honderich investigates the morality of the September 11th attacks and what terrorism tells us about ourselves and our obligations. Did we have a responsibility for what took place? Did we respond to it as we should have? What are we to do now? "After the Terror" inquires into the "natural fact" of morality and the worked-out moralities of philosophers. It reaches to the moral core of our lives. Honderich writes, "We can be held partly responsible for the 3,000 deaths at the twin towers and at the Pentagon. We are rightly to be held responsible along with the killers. We share the guilt. Those who condemn us have a reason to do so. Did we bring the killing at the twin towers on ourselves? Did we have it coming? Those offensive questions, and their offensive, but affirmative answer, do contain a truth."

Author : Thomas Hodgskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Right of property
ISBN : BL:A0019867894

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The natural and artificial right of property contrasted by Thomas Hodgskin Pdf

Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:32044112510433

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Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Pdf

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262353816

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Against Nature by Lorraine Daston Pdf

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enlisted to illustrate and buttress moral orders. Revolutionaries and reactionaries alike have appealed to nature to shore up their causes. No amount of philosophical argument or political critique deters the persistent and pervasive temptation to conflate the “is” of natural orders with the “ought” of moral orders. In this short, pithy work of philosophical anthropology, Lorraine Daston asks why we continually seek moral orders in natural orders, despite so much good counsel to the contrary. She outlines three specific forms of natural order in the Western philosophical tradition—specific natures, local natures, and universal natural laws—and describes how each of these three natural orders has been used to define and oppose a distinctive form of the unnatural. She argues that each of these forms of the unnatural triggers equally distinctive emotions: horror, terror, and wonder. Daston proposes that human reason practiced in human bodies should command the attention of philosophers, who have traditionally yearned for a transcendent reason, valid for all species, all epochs, even all planets.

Author : Eduardo Baker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030995089

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Human Rights and Humanity’s Rights During Year Three of the French Revolution by Eduardo Baker Pdf

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793. It presents the revolutionaries’ distinct view on human rights and the rights of the peoples, as well as their philosophical underpinnings. After discussing how contemporary legal history and theory, and political philosophy approached the revolutionary period, the book tackles the main topics covered during the debates and proposals. Starting with the issue of external relations and the sovereignty of the people and ending with natural rights and Republicanism, this book shows how apparently technical questions (such as what procedure should be implemented to declare a war) are intertwined with philosophical reflections on rights and with problems that were urgent at the time.

Author : Tom Angier,Iain T. Benson,Mark D. Retter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108943680

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The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights by Tom Angier,Iain T. Benson,Mark D. Retter Pdf

This Handbook provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of the relationship between natural law and human rights. It fills a crucial gap in the literature with leading scholarship on the importance of natural law as a philosophical foundation for human rights and its significance for contemporary debates. The themes covered include: the role of natural law thought in the history of human rights; human rights scepticism; the different notions of 'subjective right'; the various foundations for human rights within natural law ethics; the relationship between natural law and human rights in religious traditions; the idea of human dignity; the relation between human rights, political community and law; human rights interpretation; and tensions between human rights law and natural law ethics. This Handbook is an ideal introduction to natural law perspectives on human rights, while also offering a concise summary of scholarly developments in the field.

Author : Ian Hunter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781474449243

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Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law by Ian Hunter Pdf

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.

Author : Jean Jacques Burlamaqui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : International law
ISBN : OSU:32437000300307

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The Principles of Natural and Politic Law by Jean Jacques Burlamaqui Pdf

Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198809098

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Terrorism by Charles Townshend Pdf

"Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'war against terrorism'? In this fully updated edition, Charles Townshend unravels the questions at the heart of the problem of terrorism - its causes, methods, effects, and limitations - suggesting that it must be understood as a political strategy whose threat can be rationally grasped and answered"--Publisher's description.

Author : Daniel Chernilo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009806

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The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory by Daniel Chernilo Pdf

Daniel Chernilo offers an original reconstruction of the history of universalism in modern social thought from Hobbes to Habermas.

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316003889

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The Terror by Dan Simmons Pdf

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Liberty
ISBN : OXFORD:590611329

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Two Treatises on Government by John Locke Pdf