Жан от Париж за собствеността и съпротивата срещу властта
Petar Cholakov – John of Paris on Property and Resistance against Power

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the views of John of Paris on property and resistance, as expressed in his treatise On Royal and Papal Power. The chief contribution of the Dominican monk to the debate on the limitations of government consists in his arguments in support of his view that the encroachment of property justifies initiating actions against the powers that be. This stance remains far removed from the subsequent liberal discourse on the natural rights of man. The essential difference between the mediaeval and the liberal ideas on resistance stems from the fact that the latter give prominence not to the importance of the Christian community, but to the value of individual, to his inherent inalienable sphere, in which the state must not interfere.

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