What's the Problem With Natural Rights? | Nigel Biggar | Oxford University

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What's the Problem With Natural Rights?
A lecture by Nigel Biggar (Oxford University) delivered at the conference "What Are Natural Rights?" on April 1, 2017 in New York City.
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[@kingofmaglos3]

Excellent lecture and very important. I feel all too often we forget the importance of the context and prudential decisions in which moral "rights" are actually situated.

[@marilynmelzian7370]

Why is this speaker committed to Richey? I still think you get a much better account from Aquinas. He does not talk about rights as absolute, but within the context of the common good.

[@marilynmelzian7370]

One could argue, contrary to enlightenment philosophers, that there is no state of nature that is apart from some kind of civil society. That is where the mischief was introduced. I don’t think Aquinas conceived of a state of nature that was apart from or free from, some kind of community structure, and thus a civil society.