What are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Professor V. Bradley Lewis
The Thomistic Institute
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Aquinas's Third Theory of Rights
There is no full dress theory of natural rights in the work of Aquinas. This has led many to say that that is because it is a modern notion associated with thinkers like Locke. It explains a few rights, but it doesn't explain most rights," he says. "I want to sketch out the sort of alternative understanding of rights that could be developed out of explicitly Thomistic principles"
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