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

Zusammenfassung Annabel Brett takes a fresh look at the texts traditionally cited in the history of thinking about rights! using an enormous variety of new primary sources. She begins her analysis with scholastic texts from the thirteenth century and ends with a discussion of Hobbes' theory of natural rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Introduction; 1. Right and liberty: the equivalence of dominium and ius; 2. Our just nature: subjective right in the fourteenth century; 3. Objective right and the Thomist tradition; 4. Liberty and nature: subjective right and Thomism in the Spanish sixteenth century; 5. The language of natural liberty: Fernando Vazquez de Menchaca; 6. Natural liberty in the next century: the case of Thomas Hobbes; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Brett Annabel S., Annabel S. Brett, Annabel S. (University of Cambridge) Brett
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.1997
• EAN: 9780521562393
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56239-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education