Aquinas’s First Objection to Private Property: Everything is in common by natural law
If everything is in common according to natural law, how can there be private...
Howard I. Schwartz Ph.D.
Natural Rights / Rights
Aquinas On Whether Private Property is Natural or Lawful
This is the beginning of my commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s views of private property...
Aquinas on Private Property
This is the beginning of Aquinas’s discussion of private property. Previously, I discussed Aquinas’s...
Aquinas, Aristotle and the Naturalness of Sustenance (Aquinas Answer Part II)
Humans naturally need sustenance argues Aquinas following Aristotle. [This is a continuation of my...
Aquinas’s Answer: It is natural for man to possess external things
It is natural for humans to possess external things in nature, says Aquinas. This...
Objection Two: The Wealthy Don’t Own What They Produce
Aquinas proposes a second objection to the view that humans naturally possess things from...
Aquinas on Private Property Rights
Aquinas’s views on private property rights are influential and important in understanding the history...
Who Said Property Is A ‘Self-Evident’ or ‘Natural’ Right?
There is a widely held belief that property is one of those “self-evident” or...
Liberals Need a Theory of Liberty
The political Left needs a better political philosophy and it has to start with...
The Market Should Not be 0ur God (and economists should no longer be our source of morality)
One of the stranger and more problematic changes in the modern period is the...