Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Natural Rights

When reading others post and after reading MacDonalds article I see alot of questions of if we even have natural rights. I took her arguement to say yes we do have these rights they are part of who we are as man or human. On page 27 she says, "He cannot lose them without losing himself." The thing that I believe that is up for question is if we have the ability to claim these rights and this is where reason comes into play. "To the extent natural rights, or the ability to claim natural rights, depends on the reason. But it does not follow from this that reason alone constitutes the specific nature of man or that the worth of human beings is determined solely by thier IQ's. Reason is only one human excellence(29)." This is why we are able to isolate ourselves from society and do whats right in cases such as slavery or abortion, however, are reasoning can later be questioned and does not define us as man or human.

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