It's My Right: What Are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic
The Thomistic Institute
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Natural Rights Deriving From Natural Law
If I'm obliged by natural law to pursue some good, it is naturally due to me. And that means in willing you to do X, I owe it to you to permit you to do it. So the point here is that natural rights derive from natural law. In this way, we can see natural rights following or deriving fromnatural law. If the natural law is from God, as I have argued, then the natural rights that arrive from it will also be from God.
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