Natural Right and Political Philosophy – Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert a…

Natural Right and Political PhilosophyEssays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert\nAuthor(s): Ann Ward, Lee Ward\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268044275, 978-0268044275\nSynopsis\nInspired by the work of prominent University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert, this volume of essays explores the concept of natural right in the history of political philosophy. The central organizing principle of the collection is the examination of the idea of natural justice, identified in the classical period with natural right and in modernity with the concept of individual natural rights. \n\n Contributors examine the concept of natural right and rights in all the manifold and interdisciplinary dimensions associated with the Zuckerts' oeuvre. Part I explores the theme of natural right in the ancient and medieval political philosophy of Plato, Xeno.