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Today's episode, by appointment only, political philosophy

in the second scholastic.

I closed the last episode by saying that there's a close connection between the Iberian

scholastics theories of law and economics and their political philosophy. That connection lies

especially in the concept of Dominium, which modern day scholars usually don't translate,

perhaps because the cognate English word dominion and the literal translation, lordship,

would both be too narrow in meaning.

For the scholastics you have dominium over something and are the dominoes over it

if it is lawfully under your control.

Thus, according to Molina, humans even have natural dominium over their own actions, though it is God who is the dominoes of human bodies, which is why suicide is sinful.

Once private property is introduced into human affairs, under the law of nations,

people can have dominium over other things, namely whatever they legally own. This is very close to, if not the same as saying that people have a right to use the things they own.

This is why I can't show up at your house without your permission, start eating your food and sleeping in your bed.

When Goldilocks did that to the three bears, start eating your food and sleeping in your bed.

When Goldilocks did that to the three bears, she was infringing on their rights because

they had dominium over the house, the bulls of porridge, and the beds.

Or at least she would have been if they weren't bears.

Molina tells us that animals have no rights because having rights and

dominium presupposes being able to use reason.

Molina defines a right as a capacity to do something, obtain something, or demand it, and relates this to the concept of ownership as follows.

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