Alejandra Mancilla

The Right of Necessity

Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty

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Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people's property to get out of their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios - from street pickpocketing and petty theft to illegal squatting and encamping? In this concise and accessible book, Alejandra Mancilla addresses these complex and controversial moral questions. The book presents a historical account of the concept of the right of necessity-from the medieval writings of Christian canonists and theologians to seventeenth century natural law theory. The author the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78348-586-4
EAN: 9781783485864
Produktnummer: 18651381
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 140 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 215 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 215

Über den Autor

Alejandra Mancilla is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo, Norway. She is the co-editor of Theories of Justice (2012), and her articles have appeared, among others, in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Res Publica, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.