Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse

Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms...

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Other Authors: Mäkinen, Virpi (Editor), Korkman, Petter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • ARE THERE ANY INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OR ONLY DUTIES? On the Limits of Obedience in the Avoidance of Sin according to Late Medieval and Early Modern Scholars
  • Rights, Duties and Actions
  • Are There Any Individual Rights or Only Duties?
  • Rights and Duties in Late Scholastic Discussion on Extreme Necessity
  • Right(s) in Ockham
  • Politics, Right(s) and Human Freedom in Marsilius of Padua
  • RIGHTS AND DUTIES IN LATE SCHOLASTIC DISCUSSION ON EXTREME NECESSITY
  • Rights and Self-Ownership
  • Summenhart’s Theory of Rights
  • Moral Self-Ownership and IUS Possessionis in Scholastics
  • Dominion of Self and Natural Rights Before Locke and After
  • RIGHT(S) IN OCKHAM A Reasonable Vision of Politics
  • Towards Modern Rights Theories
  • Natural Law and Practical Reasoning in Late Medieval Scholasticism
  • Liberty and Natural Rights in Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory
  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
  • The Lockean Rightholders
  • POLITICS, RIGHT(S) AND HUMAN FREEDOM IN MARSILIUS OF PADUA
  • SUMMENHART’S THEORY OF RIGHTS A Culmination of the Late Medieval Discourse on Individual Rights
  • MORAL SELF-OWNERSHIP AND IUS POSSESSIONIS IN SCHOLASTICS
  • DOMINION OF SELF AND NATURAL RIGHTS BEFORE LOCKE AND AFTER
  • NATURAL LAW AND PRACTICAL REASONING IN LATE MEDIEVAL SCHOLASTICISM Shifts Toward Early Modernity
  • LIBERTY AND NATURAL RIGHTS IN PUFENDORF’S NATURAL LAW THEORY.