A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women

This paper explores the transformation of the concept of rights through the contingencies of Western cultural history. It follows the emergence of an autonomous nomos in fifth-century BCE Greece, and it surveys Roman law and its recovery in the eleventh-century during the Papal Revolution, which fir...

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Main Author: Baldissone, Riccardo
Format: Journal Article
Published: LexisNexis Betterworths 2011
Online Access:http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=331364056279715;res=IELHSS
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8591
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description This paper explores the transformation of the concept of rights through the contingencies of Western cultural history. It follows the emergence of an autonomous nomos in fifth-century BCE Greece, and it surveys Roman law and its recovery in the eleventh-century during the Papal Revolution, which first applied in the Western world to the whole society the Platonic program of founding the polity upon principles. Such foundationalist approach was restated in modern times by Hobbes' absolutely individualist anthropology, whose overcoming requires both the questioning of Western theological and naturalistic aperspectival stances, and the opening of radically participatory paths.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-85912017-03-08T13:18:42Z A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women Baldissone, Riccardo This paper explores the transformation of the concept of rights through the contingencies of Western cultural history. It follows the emergence of an autonomous nomos in fifth-century BCE Greece, and it surveys Roman law and its recovery in the eleventh-century during the Papal Revolution, which first applied in the Western world to the whole society the Platonic program of founding the polity upon principles. Such foundationalist approach was restated in modern times by Hobbes' absolutely individualist anthropology, whose overcoming requires both the questioning of Western theological and naturalistic aperspectival stances, and the opening of radically participatory paths. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8591 http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=331364056279715;res=IELHSS LexisNexis Betterworths restricted
spellingShingle Baldissone, Riccardo
A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women
title A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women
title_full A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women
title_fullStr A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women
title_full_unstemmed A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women
title_short A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men, and Incidentally, of Women
title_sort contribution to a western genealogy of the rights of men, and incidentally, of women
url http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=331364056279715;res=IELHSS
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8591