Article ID: CBB558913053

Seneca on Human Rights in De Beneficiis 3 (2021)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Aelianus, Claudius
Shinnar, Shulamit
Gaca, Kathy L.
Shogry, Simon
Jason Morris
Ricciardetto, Antonio
Concepts
Stoicism
Philosophy
Logic
Cosmology
German language
Critical editions
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Roman Empire
Rome (Italy)
Palestine
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