Aquinas on the Relationship of Natural Law and Human Law
How does Aquinas understand private property’s relationship to natural law? This question is a...
Howard I. Schwartz Ph.D.
Tag Archive for "Natural Rights"
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...
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 Replies to Objections on Possession of External Things
This is a continuation of my commentary on Aquinas on private property rights. ST...
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...
Objection Two: The Wealthy Don’t Own What They Produce
Aquinas proposes a second objection to the view that humans naturally possess things from...
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...
Why Health Care Is A Natural Right (King v. Burwell)
With the Supreme Court decision looming in the Obamacare related case of King v....
Natural Rights – Not So Self-Evident
Today, political discourse continues to talk about “our rights” as if they are self-evident...