Howard I. Schwartz Ph.D.

How does Aquinas understand private property’s relationship to natural law? This question is a...

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...

This is a continuation of my commentary on Aquinas on private property rights. ST...

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

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

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

With the Supreme Court decision looming in the Obamacare related case of King v....

Today, political discourse continues to talk about “our rights” as if they are self-evident...