Gleichheit und Gleichmass / Equality and Equitability

English summary: On the threshold of the Middle Ages and the modern era, there was a revolutionary idea: The claim that all human beings have rights is regarded as the normative basic idea of modernity. Kirstin Bunge analyses Francisco de Vitoria's (1483-1546) philosophy of law which ambiguously oscillates between subjective rights and natural law. Based on the terms of dominium and aequalitas, she reconstructs an impressive conceptual network as the basis of subjective rights and...
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English summary: On the threshold of the Middle Ages and the modern era, there was a revolutionary idea: The claim that all human beings have rights is regarded as the normative basic idea of modernity. Kirstin Bunge analyses Francisco de Vitoria's (1483-1546) philosophy of law which ambiguously oscillates between subjective rights and natural law. Based on the terms of dominium and aequalitas, she reconstructs an impressive conceptual network as the basis of subjective rights and systematically defines Vitoria's relationship between law and liberty, equality and justice, common and private property, war and peace. Kirstin Bunge thereby convincingly demonstrates the constitutive complexity and the challenges of the modern philosophy of law in the work of Vitoria. German description: Am Anfang einer grundlegenden Veranderung der Welt stand eine Idee: Dass Menschen Rechte haben, gilt als der normative Grundgedanke der Moderne. Kirstin Bunge analysiert die Rechtsphilosophie des spanischen Moraltheologen Francisco de Vitoria (1483-1546) im Spannungsfeld zwischen subjektiven Rechten und naturrechtlicher Ordnung. Ausgehend von den Termini dominium und aequalitas rekonstruiert sie ein beeindruckendes Begriffsnetz, das subjektiven Rechten zugrunde liegt, und zeichnet systematisch Vitorias Verhaltnisbestimmungen von Recht und Freiheit, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit, Gemeinbesitz und Eigentum, Krieg und Frieden nach. Damit zeigt Kirstin Bunge uberzeugend die besonderen Herausforderungen moderner Rechtsphilosophie am Beispiel von Vitorias Werk auf.