The nature of rights
Subtitle: moral and political aspects of rights in late medieval and early modern philosophy
By: edited by Virpi Mäkinen
Series: Acta philosophica Fennica -- v. 87
Publisher: The Philosophical Society of Finland
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789519264714
Subjects: Natural law; Congresses; Medieval Law; Modern Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; History
Notes: Includes many essays from the international workshop "From Natural Rights to Human Rights," held Mar. 15, 2008 at the University of Helsinki.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Justice, law, power, and agency : defining the nature of right(s) / Virpi Mäkinen; title: Medieval and modern concepts of rights : how do they differ? / John Kilcullen; title: From objective right to subjective rights : the Franciscans and the interest and will conceptions of rights / Siegfried van Duffel; title: Self-preservation and natural rights in late medieval and early modern political thought / Virpi Mäkinen; title: Individual right as power : from domination to agency / Jussi Varkemaa; title: The case of widows : Christine de Pizan on defending the rights of widows / Ilse Paakkinen; title: Suárez's ideas on natural law in the light of his philosophical anthropology and moral psychology / Erik Åkerlund; title: Pufendorf on natural equality / Kari Saastamoinen; title: Purposes of social contracts : Hobbesian laws, Lockean rights, and Rawlsian ideas / Ville Päivänsalo.