RIGHTS AT THE MARGINS: Historical, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
Eds. Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson, Pamela Slotte and Heikki Haara
Contents (preliminary)
Introduction: Rights and Justice towards the Margins (Virpi Mäkinen, Jonathan Robinson, and Pamela Slotte)
PART I: Rights, Duties, and Necessities
- Virpi Mäkinen: Natural Rights and Human Needs in the Franciscan Poverty Dispute
- Heikki Haara: Rights to Life and Body in Pufendorf’s Natural Law Theory
- John Salter: Poverty, Rights and Charity: From Hugo Grotius to Adam Smith
Part II: Rights and the Poor Law
- Jonathan Robinson: The Place of the Poor in Medieval Jurisprudence
- Wim Decock: Poor and Broke: The Right to Debt Relief in Gabriel Alvarez de Velasco’s De privilegiis pauperum
Part III: Justice towards the Margins
- Johan Olsthroon: Hugo Grotius on Distributive Justice
- Mikko Tolonen: Conceptual Possibility of Social Justice in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Part IV: Rights and the Others
- Virpi Mäkinen and Mikko Posti: Why Should We Recognize the Others? Some Early-Modern Examples of Recognition and Non-Recognition the Infidels
- Ilse Paakkinen: Widows as a Needy and Protected Group in Christine de Pizan’s Thought
- Jussi Varkemaa: Animals in Conrad Summenhart’s and Francisco de Vitoria’s Theories of Rights
Part V: Geopolitical, Global, and Contemporary Perspectives at the Margins
- Julia McClure: The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History
- Alejandra Mancilla: The Right of Necessity and the Problem of Global sPoverty
- Pamela Slotte: Rights, not Charity!
Conclusions (Virpi Mäkinen)