Front Page Authors (by Period) 17th Century Natural Rights
Theorists School of Thought: 17th Century Natural Rights
Theorists The 17th century was an important period in the
development of natural law theories. The crises and revolutions
of the mid-century prompted many thinkers to see civil and
economic relations as being based on natural law and natural
rights, independent of the monarch or the church. These thinkers
laid the foundation for the further secularization of natural
law theories in the Enlightenment of the 18th century and the
revolutions which came out of that, namely the American and
French Revolutions. |Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) ||John Locke
(1632-1704) ||Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) For more information
see: - Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights (Grand Rapids,
Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2001). - Stephen Buckle, Natural
Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume (Oxford:
Claredon Press, 1991). - Roscoe Pound, The Ideal Element in Law
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002). - Heinrich