From Objective Right to Subjective Rights: The Franciscans and the Interest and Will Conceptions of Rights
Abstract
What are subjective rights? And what makes Will and Interest conceptions of rights into conceptions of rights? I argue that they originate in two very different natural rights theories which are, however, grounded in the same philosophical anthropology.
Suggested Citation
Siegfried Van Duffel. "From Objective Right to Subjective Rights: The Franciscans and the Interest and Will Conceptions of Rights" The Nature of Rights: Moral and Political Aspects of Rights in Late Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Ed. Virpi Mäkinen. Helsinki: Philosophical Society of Finland, 2010. 63-92.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/siegfried/9
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