Natural law and political realism in the history of political thought Vol. 2 : From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century / R.W. Dyson

Chapter 1 : Nature, Morality and Realism : The Political Philosophy of thomas Hobbes
Chapter 2 : Nature Rights, Obligation and the limits of Authority: The Political Philosophy of John Locke
Chapter 3 : Nature, Civilization and Freedom: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chapter 4 : The Social Contract Revisited: The Political Philosophy of John Rawls
Chapter 5 : The State of Nature, the social contract and the doctrine of natural rights
Chapter 6 : Economics, Politics and the march of History: Karl Marx on the Emancipation of Human Nature
Chapter 7 : Natural Law, Political realism and International Relations
Chapter 8: Nature, Reason and Morality : An Examination of the Foundations of the Natural Law Tradition

This second volume completes the author’s account of natural law and political realism as historical traditions of political thought. In it, the development of those traditions is traced from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, with special emphasis given to theories of human nature and the ‘natural’ or ‘human’ rights doctrines that have been derived from them. These things are examined also in the context of the comparatively recent internationalisation of political theory. The final chapter addresses the question of whether the modern rhetoric of human rights and humanitarian intervention rests upon a coherent philosophical foundation.