PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hugo Grotius, Stoicism, Negative And Positive Rights
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That aim to secure for such a person certain benefits or freedoms that are of fundamental importance to any human being. Time of stoics of ancient greece and roman empire and philosophers (thomas aquinas): Natural law: inbuilt order of things in nature independent of the religious truth. Could apply to any human being, common ground. The natural law was a higher law than positive law that protected all mankind. It was a common ground for different cultures and religions. Rise of darwinism, marxism and freudianism: fall of classical natural law. Modern natural law = still a universal higher law but the nature played only a minor role (instead: capacity of free individuals to seek cooperative schemes of mutual advantage) Grotius, locke, kant: natural law as subjective rights that are prerequisites for the construction of a fair social order: focus on indiv right link with hr.
