Natural law in early modern philosophy

By Heydt, Colin

Are there moral norms for action applicable in all times and places? It was common in the early modern period to answer ‘Yes’ to this question and to ...

Locke, John (1632–1704)

John Locke was the leading English philosopher of the late seventeenth century. His two major works, An Essay concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of ...

Suárez, Francisco (1548–1617)

By Doyle, John P.

Francisco Suárez was the main channel through which medieval philosophy flowed into the modern world. He was educated first in law and, after his entry into the Jesuits, ...

Hutcheson, Francis (1694–1746)

By Maurer, Christian

Francis Hutcheson was an Irish–Scottish moral philosopher. He is best known for his epistemological claim that a disinterested moral sense is the source of our ideas of moral ...