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Seneca on human rights in De beneficiis 3
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dc.contributor.author | Long, Alexander George | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-20T23:38:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-20T23:38:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04 | |
dc.identifier | 259641716 | |
dc.identifier | 8cd3d1cb-9496-4576-9e92-1f41d498f026 | |
dc.identifier | 85104521179 | |
dc.identifier | 000640150300003 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Long , A G 2021 , ' Seneca on human rights in De beneficiis 3 ' , Apeiron , vol. 54 , no. 2 , pp. 189-201 . https://doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2019-0019 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-6390 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-5838-5490/work/61979022 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20495 | |
dc.description.abstract | The paper discusses Seneca’s phrase ‘human rights’ (ius humanum) in On Benefits 3 and relates the passage to recent debates about human rights in Stoicism and ancient philosophy. I argue that the Latin phrase refers either to rights or to a law conferring rights. The difference between the passage and a common expectation for human rights lies in the kind of relation between right and duty. In Seneca’s passage the right does not in itself have a correlative duty on the part of other people, and yet it does, if exercised through benefactions, create a duty in others. By contrast, the relation between right and duty is usually expected to be unconditional. | |
dc.format.extent | 13 | |
dc.format.extent | 2154147 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Apeiron | en |
dc.subject | Seneca | en |
dc.subject | Human rights | en |
dc.subject | Society | en |
dc.subject | Benefits | en |
dc.subject | PA Classical philology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PA | en |
dc.title | Seneca on human rights in De beneficiis 3 | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Classics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/apeiron-2019-0019 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2020-08-21 |
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