Spring 1999

On the Presumed Medieval Origin of Individual Rights

Ernest L. Fortin

"[T]here exists a specifically modern notion of rights that comes to the fore with Hobbes . . . and distinguishes itself from all previous notions, not so much by its definition of right as power, as by its proclamation of rights rather than duties as the primary moral counter."

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