Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought

I. Hunter · David Saunders

Jun 2002 · Springer

About this ebook

In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict. In addition to providing fresh insights into the hard-fought struggle to legitimate a desacralised civil order, the book also shows the degree to which the legitimacy of the modern secular state remains dependent on this decisive set of developments.

About the author

THOMAS AHNERT Reader of History, St John's College, Cambridge THOMAS BEHME Professor of Philosophy, Freie University, Berlin CONAL CONDREN Professor of Political Science and Director of Humanities Research Programme, University of New South Wales, Australia ROBERT VON FRIEDEBURG Lecturer, Department of History, University of Bielefeld FRANK GRUNERT Research Assistant, University of Basel KNUD HAAKONSSEN Professor of Philosophy, Boston University DIETER HÜNING Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University, Berlin DUNCAN IVISON Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney CLARE JACKSON Assistant Lecturer, Department of History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge PETTER KORKMAN Philosopher BLANDINE KRIEGEL Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Paris X (Nan terre) JON PARKIN Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York KARI SAASTAMOINEN Research Fellow, Academy of Finland PETER SCHRÖDER Lecturer, University College, London MICHAEL J. SEIDLER Professor of Philosophy, Western Kentucky University, USA