Freedom and Flourishing
Sunday, September 29, 2019
How can you believe in the existence of natural rights?
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In preceding articles on this blog I have traced the evolution of the concept of natural rights from ancient reasoning about natural l...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Why did the US Declaration of Independence specify an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness?
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Given that the United States was founded by politicians, is there is any point trying to understand why any particular words were inclu...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Where did Adam Smith's 'system of natural liberty' come from?
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In Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1723 -1790) famously wrote that when all systems of government preferment or restraint for particular “...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
How did beliefs about individual rights travel from Cicero to Locke?
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This rather long post follows on from one in which I asked how we got from natural law to natural rights. In case you are wondering, the...
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