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>I'm not interested in efforts to treat political compromise as holy writ. The concept of natural rights started with philosophers, not politicians. You seem l
by chibg10 8y ago
>I'm not interested in efforts to treat political compromise as holy writ.
The concept of natural rights started with philosophers, not politicians. You seem like you need to do a little more reading on this subject.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The concept of natural rights started with philosophers, not politicians. No, it started largely with politicians who were also philosophers (whether you look at the ancient roots with Cicero and Seneca or people like Locke who were instrumental in crafting the modern view of natural rights.) But, in any case, it is irrelevant to the bit you quote and respond to, which is about people citing particular provisions of the US Constitution as definitive expressions of natural rights, not about the mere concept of natural rights.