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Episode 93: Aaron Herold - The Democratic Soul

The Political Theory Review

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Natural Rights Is a Part of a Civil Religion

Spinoza says that if everyone became philosophers, society wouldn't hold together. People pursue what he calls these goods of fortune with excessive desire. Natural rights is a kind of civil religion in which a god is not entirely absent,. But it's also divine right, he says, but tits god is kind of taken a back seat.

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