Book contents
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: history of human rights as political intervention in the present
- Book part
- 1 Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
- Part I Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- 2 Human rights in Antiquity? Revisiting anachronism and Roman law
- 3 Medieval natural rights discourse
- 4 Human rights and the Thomist tradition
- Part II Pluralities of discourses and rights: the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century
- Part III Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Index
4 - Human rights and the Thomist tradition
from Part I - Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: history of human rights as political intervention in the present
- Book part
- 1 Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
- Part I Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- 2 Human rights in Antiquity? Revisiting anachronism and Roman law
- 3 Medieval natural rights discourse
- 4 Human rights and the Thomist tradition
- Part II Pluralities of discourses and rights: the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century
- Part III Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Index
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- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights , pp. 82 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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