
What are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Professor V. Bradley Lewis
The Thomistic Institute
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The Right Is Paradoxical on the Duty
The term that we translate as right from Aquinas' Latin is the word yus. Yus is also related to yustham, which means the right thing or just thing. Justice for Aquinas is first and foremost the name of a virtue, the virtue of justice. The virtue is defined by him as "the perpetual and constant will to render to each his yus"
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