The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.

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This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to

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In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions