Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Ideas in Context, Series Number 44)

Brett, Annabel S.

ISBN 10: 0521543401 / ISBN 13: 9780521543408

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liberty, Right and Nature: Individual Rights in Later Scholastic Thought (Ideas in Context, Series Number 44)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521543401
• ISBN 13: 9780521543408
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 development, beginning with the texts of the thirteenth century poverty controversy and ending with a discussion of Thomas Hobbes' theory of natural rights.