On the Spirit of Rights
In: The Life of Ideas
Intro -- Contents -- I. How to Think about Rights in Early Modern Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tectonic Shifts and Tectonic Plates: Two Models for the Transformation of Culture -- 3. A Revolution in Natural Law? From Objective to Subjective Right (and Back Again) -- 4. Rights and Sovereignty: Beyond the State -- 5. Inalienability vs. the Alienation of Rights -- 6. Roman Law, the Lex Regia, and the Genealogy of Rights Regimes -- 7. Writing Intellectual History in a Digital Age -- Part I. Early Modern Rights Regimes -- II. When Did Rights Become "Rights"? From the Wars of Religion to the Dawn of Enlightenment -- 1. Monarchomachs and Tyrannicides: Natural Rights in the French Wars of Religion -- 2. English Liberties and Natural Rights: Leveller Arguments in the English Civil War -- 3. Abridging Natural Rights: Hobbes and the High Church Divines -- 4. Entrust, but Verify? The Transfer Regime from Spinoza to Locke -- 5. Into the Enlightenment: "Cato" and Hutcheson -- III. From Liberalism to Liberty: Natural Rights in the French Enlightenment -- 1. Sources for Natural Law Theory in France, 1700- 1750 -- 2. Physiocracy and the Dangerous Ignorance of Natural Rights -- 3. Natural Rights Talk in the Late Enlightenment: The Philosophes Carry the Torch -- 4. The (Meek) Conservative Reaction -- 5. Resisting Despotism: National Rights and Constitutionalism -- Part II. Social Naturalism in Early Modern France -- IV. The Laws of Nature in Neo-Stoicism and Science -- 1. The Many Receptions of Stoicism -- 2. Laws of the Natural World: The New Science -- V. Roman Law and Order: From Free-Market Ideology to Abolitionism -- 1. The Jansenist Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Jean Domat, the Natural Order, and the Origins of Free-Market Ideology -- 2. "All Men Are Originally Born Free": Slavery, Empathy, and the Extension of Human Rights -- 3. Conclusion