FROM NATURAL LAW TO HUMAN RIGHTS
A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF KNUD HAAKONSSEN
SUSSEX CENTRE FOR INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel, Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 2FU
October 12th 9.00 AM
BUCKINGHAM ROOM
Introduction: Donald Winch
Session 1 9.30-11.00
Rights and justice
James Moore: Natural law and human rights: a contribution to a dialogue with Knud Haakonssen
Sandy Stewart: Scottish philosophy, natural rights, self-evident truths, and the Declaration of
Independence--a cautionary tale
DISCUSSANT: John Robertson
11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee
Session 2 11.30-13.00
The nature of natural law (1)
Diethelm Klippel: Political and legal functions of German natural law (ca. 1700 to ca. 1850)
Frank Grunert: The 'iura connata' in German natural law
Thomas Ahnert, Transitions in German natural law theory in the early eighteenth century
DISCUSSANT: Tim Hochstrasser
Lunch 13.00-14.15
Session 3 14.15-15.45
The nature of natural law (2)
Michael Seidler, Natural Law and Economic Rights: Pufendorf on Sumptuary Laws
John Cairns: Natural law and Education in Roman Law in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Ann Thomson: French 18th-century materialists and natural law
DISCUSSANT: Aaron Garrett
Tea/coffee 15.45-16.15
Session 4 16.15-17.15
Equality and liberty
Kari Saastamoinen: Natural Equality in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government
Eckhart Hellmuth: The liberty of the press in England in the 1720s and 1730s
DISCUSSANT: James Moore
Evening meal 18.45
AMBASSADOR ROOM
October 13th
BUCKINGHAM ROOM
Session 5 9.30-11.00
Toleration, Rights and Ethics
Maria Rosa Antognazza: Leibniz's Doctrine of Toleration: Philosophical, Theological, and Pragmatic
Reasons
Martin Fitzpatrick: From Natural Law to Natural Rights? The case of toleration in the late eighteenth
century
DISCUSSANT: Michael Seidler
11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee
Session 6 11.30-13.00
Rights, democracy and international law
David Lieberman: Bentham, rights and democracy
Peter Schröder: Natural Law in the formation of international Law – the contribution by Johann Jacob
Schmauss
DISCUSSANT: Richard Whatmore
Lunch 13.00-14.15
Session 7 14.15-15.45
The nature of philosophy
Colin Heydt: Duties to Self and the Moral Significance of Self-Harm in Early Modern British Moral
Philosophy
Aaron Garrett: Methodology in the history of ethics
DISCUSSANT: Ian Hunter
15.45-16.30
Concluding remarks: Richard Fisher and John Robertson (WITH TEA AND COFFEE)