What are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Professor V. Bradley Lewis
The Thomistic Institute
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The Discourse of Individual Rights Is the Violent
Critics of rights talk often identify it as a modern innovation, that in earlier ages society's political discourse was not about rights. Rights emerged with the Enlightenment thinkers who rejected Thomistic moral and political thought. Several passages in the Declaration of Independence are virtual quotations from Locke's Second Treatise on Government. If postmodernism is a reaction to modernism, then the seemingly insucient postmodern view of rights is a natural development out of Jefferson's view of rights," he says.
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