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82The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global PovertyRowman & Littlefield International. 2016.What does the basic right to subsistence allow its holders to do for themselves when it goes unfulfilled? This book guides the reader through the morality of infringing property rights for subsistence, in a global context.
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477Samuel Pufendorf and the Right of NecessityAporia 3 47-64. 2012.From the end of the twelfth century until the middle of the eighteenth century, the concept of a right of necessity –i.e. the moral prerogative of an agent, given certain conditions, to use or take someone else’s property in order to get out of his plight– was common among moral and political philosophers, who took it to be a valid exception to the standard moral and legal rules. In this essay, I analyze Samuel Pufendorf’s account of such a right, founded on the basic instinct of self-preservati…Read more
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Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |