Concept
Natural rights and legal rights
Overview
two types of rights theoretically distinct according to philosophers and political scientists
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Natural right, as distinguished from morals, is based upon the notion of justice, this being the outward manifestation of wisdom, or knowledge,--appreciation of the relation of actions to happiness. The definitions given by Leibniz are as follows: Just and unjust are what are useful or harmful to the public,--that is, to the community of spirits. This community includes first God, then humanity, then the state.
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
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Right Of Nature What The RIGHT OF NATURE, which Writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the Liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himselfe, for the preservation of his own Nature; that is to say, of his own Life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own Judgement, and Reason, hee shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto. Liberty What By LIBERTY, is understood, according to the…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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The phrase “Law of Nature,” or Natural Right(154), in use for the philosophy of law involves the ambiguity that it may mean either right as something existing ready-formed in nature, or right as governed by the nature of things, i.e. by the notion. The former used to be the common meaning, accompanied with the fiction of a _state of nature_, in which the law of nature should hold sway; whereas the social and…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophers who discussed Natural rights and legal rights
- Max Stirner
- The Ego and Its Own
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Adam Smith
- Tibor Machan
- Augustine of Hippo
- Leo Strauss
- Richard Clyde Taylor
- Carl Jung
- Jeremy Bentham
- Benedetto Croce
- Tara Smith (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Anarcho-capitalism
- German Enlightenment
- Max Stirner
- Self-evidence
- G. E. Moore
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Human rights
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Immanuel Kant
- Classical republicanism
- Albertus Magnus
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- James Madison
- John Locke
- Positive law
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Random House
- Middle Ages
- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
- Leviathan (Hobbes book)
- Stoicism
- The Social Contract
- American Revolution
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.
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