Natural Right and History

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Author(s): Leo Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1999

Language: English

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1
I . NATURAL RIGHT AND THE HISTORICAL APPROACH .. . 9
II. NATURAL RIGHT AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN FACTS AND
VALUES 35
III. THE ORIGIN O F THE IDEA O F NATURAL RIGHT ... . 81
I V . CLASSIC NATURAL RIGHT 12 0
V. MODERN NATURAL RIGHT 16 5
A. HOBBES 166
B. LOCKE 202
V I . THE CRISIS OF MODERN NATURAL RIGHT 252
A. ROUSSEAU 252
B
. BURKE 294
INDEX 324