
Episode 336: A Fireside Chat Without the Fire
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The Metaphysical Rights of the Classical Liberal Tradition
I was giving an account of rights which could satisfy either tradition but it was grounded in the chem team tradition where there are rights that exist metaphysically and part of why I was doing that. For a large area of the questions we're practically interested in for rights-based approach not all people will agree on how they can treat each other so we're pushing back against the language of rights. This reminds me of a possibly apocryphal exchange supposedly between Napoleon and his court astronomer who has just described his cosmology. He supposedly says well where does God fit into this cosmology and the court astronomer says sire I have no need of that hypothesis. Well gentlemen that's all the time we
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