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| | The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics |
 | | Nor can one be an agnostic while affirming the paradigmatic natural law view: for agnosticism is the refusal to commit either to God's existence or nonexistence, whereas the paradigmatic natural law view involves a commitment to God's existence. | | | It is also clear that the paradigmatic natural law view rules out a deism on which there is a divine being but that divine being has no interest in human matters. | | | On the side of metaphysics, it is clear that the natural law view is incompatible with atheism: one cannot have a theory of divine providence without a divine being. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics
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| | Natural Rights and Political Rights (1890) |
| | To say that a thing exists in nature and to say that it has a natural right to existence are, in fact, merely two ways of stating the same truth; which is that, in nature, fact and justification of the fact, or, in other words, might and right, are coextensive. | | | The assertion that the tigress had a "natural right" to do what she did, [344] or that she and her cubs were justified by the "Law of Nature" in their course of action, will perhaps seem to most a monstrous, if not a wicked, doctrine. | | | The laws of nature are statements of tendencies, and if one law expresses the truth, that tigers which kill and eat will live and wax fat, another expresses the converse truth, that if tigers do not kill and eat, they will wax lean and die. |
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http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/NatR.html
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| | Natural Law and Natural Rights |
| | Today many people imagine that natural law is a code of words, like the code of Hammurabi, or the twelve tables, written down somewhere, on the wall of an ancient Greek temple, or some medieval vellum manuscript, perhaps revealed by God or some divinely illuminated prophet. | | | Kings who claimed to rule by divine right were killed or forced to flee. | | | If someone rejects the language of natural law, refuses to use such words, pretends not to comprehend them, and rejects them as meaningless, then he is not interested in using words as a medium of communication. |
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http://www.jim.com/rights.html
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| | Left2Right: How Not to Complain Against Taxes (II): Against Natural Property Rights |
| | The main argument I see for natural property rights is not that there is any evidence for them, but that acknowledging their non-existence would lead to unrestrained kleptocracy and crumbling social structure. | | | I’m sure there are many libertarians (and I know there are many conservatives) who cling to natural rights theories with the same tenacity that many of Ms Anderson’s progressive colleagues harbor lingering hopes of a resuscitated Marxism, her apparent unawareness of such folks notwithstanding. | | | The state does not "interfere" in a "natural" capitalistic realm; rather, state action constitutes this realm as distinctively capitalistic. |
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http://left2right.typepad.com/main/2005/01/why_i_reject_na.html
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| | Hodgskin, The Natural and Artifical Right of Property Contrasted (1832): The Online Library of Liberty |
| | Bentham and Mill and their arrogant disciples, have not cast the seeds of their faith in nature, on a barren and ungrateful soil. | | | The decrees of nature concerning the moral world are as unchangeable as the laws of matter; and I should join in the laugh against myself, if the decrees I have mentioned did not unchangeably exist. | | | When the wisdom of man shall surpass the wisdom of God, we may suppose that there is some reason in the false pretexts continually put forth by priests, and kings, and their agents. |
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http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Hodgskin0283/Property/0419_Bk.html
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| | Interview With Jeff Snyder |
| | You can be governed, except that government must leave you alone in such and such spheres of activity: free speech, free exercise of religion, bearing arms, etc. The "rights" analysis pictures envelopment in a sphere of coercive authority, with specified, limited pockets of freedom. | | | The fundamental question is not what rights do I have, but why may anyone exercise coercive authority over me in the first place? | | | They cannot step off the baseline, cannot see the world apart from the baseline. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/stagnaro2.html
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| | The Natural Law/Natural Right Page |
| | Henry Drummand's Natural Law in the Spiritual World | | | Human Rights, Virtue & the Common Good: Untimely Meditations on Religion & Politics | | | John Kilcullen's Natural law and will in Ockham |
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http://members.tripod.com/~batesca/natlaw.htm
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| | Hamas chief says suicide bombings 'a natural right' |
| | Sure he is. He's exercising his right to CHOOSE whether to blow himself up or not. | | | I strongly encourage ALL Palastinians to exercise their "natural right"; Strap on the vest and blow yourselves clean off the map to teach us a lesson..that'll learn us..:-) | | | After all, it is a natural right to do so. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626026/posts
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| | Natural rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | So is, in literature, Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor (in The Brothers Karamazov) who sought to convince Jesus that human beings fear and cannot handle freedom because their weak nature requires authority, mystery, and miracle. | | | The existence of natural rights may be derived by individuals in various ways, such as through philosophical reasoning or religious study. | | | Critics have pointed to this lack of agreement as evidence for the claim that the idea of natural rights is merely a political tool. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_right
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| | natural rights. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The modern idea of natural rights grew out of the ancient and medieval doctrines of natural law, i.e., the belief that people, as creatures of nature and God, should live their lives and organize their society on the basis of rules and precepts laid down by nature or God. | | | Locke assumed that humans were by nature rational and good, and that they carried into political society the same rights they had enjoyed in earlier stages of society, foremost among them being freedom of worship, the right to a voice in their own government, and the right of property. | | | Perhaps the most famous formulation of this doctrine is found in the writings of John Locke. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/na/natrlrig.html
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| | No. 25 - Leo Strauss: Natural Right and History |
| | (For him), there is no supernatural realm outside of the natural realm...God is within nature rather than beyond or outside it." | | | Immanence speaks of God's presence and activity within the arenas of nature, human nature, and what we think of as reality -- as a day-to-day thing. | | | Peppe argues that Strauss' book on natural rights does not advocate either a paleoconservative or a neoconservative position. |
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http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2710.html
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| | The Moral Minimum Income - A Natural Right |
| | To refuse your brother who prefers not to work his share in production for moralistic reasons of your own devising is to claim for yourself that which you have not earned and have no right to." | | | Humans have a Natural Right to the progress provided by their ancestors. | | | No living person has a superior claim to that progress. |
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http://masonc.home.netcom.com/moralinc.html
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| | DOLHENTY ARCHIVE: John Locke, Philosopher of Liberty |
| | He asserted that a man has a natural right to that with which he has "mixed" the labor of his body, for instance, by enclosing and tilling land. | | | This is a right which each individual brings to society in his own person. | | | Political power, according to Locke, can have no right except as this is derived from the individual right of each man to protect himself and his property. |
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http://radicalacademy.com/lockebio.htm
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| | Leo Strauss - Natural Right and History |
| | Pierre Manent The Argument of Natural Right and History | | | He also challenged the dominant view that the classical natural right doctrines of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero have been superseded by historical change, and reopened the possibility that the classical view of natural right might have important lessons for us today. | | | Strauss there reopened the question of natural right, the possibility of a standard of justice independent of and superior to human agreement or convention. |
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http://olincenter.uchicago.edu/straussconference.htm
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