· 2024· Book chapter
Origins of Natural Rights Language: Texts and Contexts, 1150–1250
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Twelfth-century humanistic jurisprudence, particularly the writings of medieval Decretists, may be a better origin point for natural rights theories than later nominalism or early capitalism.
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Key points
- Natural rights theories are commonly linked to 14th-century nominalism or 17th-century capitalism.
- This paper proposes 12th-century humanistic jurisprudence as a more suitable origin for natural rights theories.
- The writings of medieval Decretists are highlighted as key texts for this earlier origin.
- This challenges the traditional view of the origins of natural rights.
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Abstract
Modern histories of natural rights theories usually place the origin of such doctrines in the late medieval or early modern periods; rights theories are commonly associated with the rise of nominalist philosophy or the beginnings of an entrepreneurial economy. In this paper I want to suggest that the humanistic jurisprudence of the twelfth century, especially the writings of the medieval Decretists, may provide a better starting point for investigating the origins of natural rights theories than either fourteenth-century nominalism or the nascent capitalism of the seventeenth century. 1
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