Natural rights

Embodying Borders: A Migrant's Right to Health, Universal Rights and…

by Quagliariello, Chiara, Kline, Nolan, DeBono, Daniela, Ferrero, Laura, Vargas, Ana Cristina, Barbosa, Tatiane, Cingolani, Pietro, Goldberg, Alejandro, Kerbage, Hala, Marranconi, Filippo, Martin, Denise, Silveira, Cássio, Viladrich, Anahí

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Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded. Access to medical care for migrants is a funda…

This dissertation presents a normative intellectual history of the development of religious toleration in the Latin West. In the Middle Ages, canon lawyers and theologians provided biblical justifications for tolerating unbelievers within their societies. During the crusades, ho…

The foundations of natural morality: on the compatibility of natural rights and the na…

by Seagrave, S. Adam

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Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and co…

The reformation of rights: law, religion, and human rights in early modern C…

by Witte, John,, Jr

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"John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state, and religion and politics that shaped the law of Protestant lands. Calvin's original teachings, which spread rapidly throughout the West, were periodically challenged by major crises - the …

Roman law in the state of nature: the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natura…

by Straumann, Benjamin

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"Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceron…

Aquinas and modern law

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This volume collects some of the best recent writings on St. Thomas's philosophy of law and includes a critical examination of Aquinas's theory of the relation between law and morality, his natural law theory, as well as the modern reformulation of his approach to natural rights…