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Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 Susan Ford Wiltshire

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 By Susan Ford Wiltshire

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 by Susan Ford Wiltshire


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Traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law.

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 Summary

Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 by Susan Ford Wiltshire

Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity through the eighteenth century. The common thread through that long story is the theory of natural law. Growing out of Greek political thought, especially that of Aristotle, natural law became a major tenet of Stoic philosophy during the Hellenistic age and later became attached to Roman legal doctrine. It underwent several transformations during the Middle Ages on the Continent and in England, especially in the thought of John Locke, before it came to justify a theory of natural right, claimed by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence as the basis of the unalienable rights of Americans.

About Susan Ford Wiltshire

Susan Ford Wiltshire is Professor Emerita of Classics at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Public and Private in Vergil's Aeneid and the editor of The Usefulness of Classical Learning in the Eighteenth Century.

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NPB9780806193229
9780806193229
0806193220
Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights Volume 15 by Susan Ford Wiltshire
New
Paperback
University of Oklahoma Press
2023-07-05
256
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