The right of necessity : moral cosmopolitanism and global poverty / Alejandra Mancilla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mancilla, Alejandra, author.

Series:

Off the fence: morality, politics and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Summary:

"Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people's property to escape their plight? Should we respect the exercise of this right of necessity in a variety of scenarios - from street pickpocketing and petty theft to illegal squatting and encamping? In this concise and accessible book, Alejandra Mancilla addresses these complex and controversial moral questions. The [book] presents a historical account of the concept of the right of necessity-from the medieval writings of Christian canonists and theologians to seventeenth century natural law theory. Mancilla goes on to ground this right in a minimal conception of basic human rights, and she proposes some necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for its exercise. She confronts the main objections that may be posed against this principle and ultimately concludes that the exercise of this right should be considered as a trigger to secure a minimum threshold of welfare provisions for everyone, everywhere."--Back cover.

Contents:

Reviving the Right of Necessity

Part I. Historical Accounts of the Right of Necessity

The Right of Necessity as a Retreat to the Right of Common Use

The Right of Necessity and the Pull of Self-preservation

Part II. The Right of Necessity and Global Poverty

Justifying the Right of Necessity

Content, Form and Conditions

The Overdemandingness Objection

The Right of Necessity within Moral Cosmopolitanism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78348-586-8