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86What we own Before Property: Hugo Grotius and the SuumGrotiana 36 (1): 63-77. 2015._ Source: _Volume 36, Issue 1, pp 63 - 77 At the basis of modern natural law theories, the concept of the _suum_, i.e. what belongs to the person, has received little scholarly attention despite its importance both in explaining and justifying not only the genealogy of property, but also that of morality and war. In this essay I focus on Grotius’s account of the _suum_ and examine what it is, what things it includes, what rights it gives rise to, and how it is extended in the transition from the…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |