Abstract:This chapter discusses 18th-century criticism on natural rights from the political and philosophical perspectives. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke were the major critics of natural...This chapter discusses 18th-century criticism on natural rights from the political and philosophical perspectives. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke were the major critics of natural law and none of them endorsed the foundations laid by either the objectivism of natural law nor the prescriptive and descriptive versions of natural rights. Burke's and Rousseau's relationship to natural law is ambivalent, but irrespective of their apparently unorthodox attachments to natural law, because both constitute significant subversive and corrosive critics of its traditional formulations.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-05-21
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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