It's My Right: Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics| Father Dominic Legge, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Importance of Social Life in Human Beings
Thomas Aquinas thinks that natural law works just this way. You need to know something about what it means to be a human being and how human beings relate to each other. And then you can begin to come up with some very general rules, which of course it will admit of particular exceptions depending on the circumstances and the individuals. But you can you can come up withSome rules that are actually quite universally true. Like human beings are social. Want to More or less have relationships with other people. Human beings don't typically live as isolated permits. There are some people who are still perhaps somewhat living as hermits. Most people don't actually like that or think that it leads to their flourishing
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