Howard I. Schwartz Ph.D.

If everything is in common according to natural law, how can there be private...

This is the beginning of my commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s views of private property...

This is the beginning of Aquinas’s discussion of private property. Previously, I discussed Aquinas’s...

Humans naturally need sustenance argues Aquinas following Aristotle.  [This is a continuation of my...

It is natural for humans to possess external things in nature, says Aquinas. This...

Aquinas proposes a second objection to the view that humans naturally possess things from...

Aquinas’s views on private property rights are influential and important in understanding the history...

There is a widely held belief that property is one of those “self-evident” or...

The political Left needs a better political philosophy and it has to start with...

One of the stranger and more problematic changes in the modern period is the...