Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought

Capa
Cambridge University Press, 16/10/2003 - 254 páginas
With the notion of individual rights as important in moral and political theory now as it has ever been, there is renewed speculation over the origins and development of this concept. Liberty, Right and Nature is a work of unusual scope and power that takes a fresh look at this intellectual tradition, and deploys an enormous range of further sources in order to reassess our understanding of its deve lopment, beginning with the texts of the thirteenth century poverty controversy and ending with a discussion of Thomas Hobbes' theory of natural rights.
 

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Introduction
1
Right and liberty the equivalence of dominium and ius
10
Our just nature subjective right in the fourteenth century
49
Objective right and the Thomist tradition
88
Liberty and nature subjective right and Thomism in sixteenthcentury Spain
123
The language of natural liberty Fernando Vazquez de Menchaca
165
Natural liberty in the next century the case of Thomas Hobbes
205
Bibliography of works cited
236
Index
250
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