Ethics of Liberty, Chapter 4: Natural Law and Natural Rights

This chapter is an historical review of natural rights, within natural law. Notably, natural law followed a vastly mistaken path for a very long time: It asked, “What should the state do?” rather than, “What should individuals do?”- that is, its program was statist, rather than individualist. 自由の倫理の第四章は自然法の天賦人権の歴史だ。今と違って、長い時間に間違えた道を進んだ。「個人はどうすれば」じゃなく、[政府はどうすれば」と聞き、政府的な計画を立った。
Natural law was therefore impotent for much of history. John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government, was among the earliest to reform natural law on individualist grounds, finally giving it teeth. それで自然法は無力な思想だった。統治二論の第二論でジョン・ロック(John Locke)が個人的な思想として自然法を再び作り上げた先駆者の一人だった。やっと歯を持つ思想になった。
(Even so, in the previous chapter it was observed that Cumberland’s and Pufendorf’s ideas were revolting to the establishment of their times. Pufendorf’s philosophy book, De iure naturae et gentium, was published 17 years before Locke’s Treatises. “Cumberland,” whoever that is (I have not yet found him), was probably also before Locke.) (だけど前の章でカンバーランド(Cumberland)とプーフェンドルフ(Pufendorf)の思想がその時の支配階級を驚かしたと読んだ。プーフェンドルフの哲学の本、De iure naturae et gentium、が統治二論の十七年先に出版された。多分カンバーランドもロックより先だったが、あのカンバーランドという人の正体は今の拙者に分からない。)
After the reformulation, natural law endorsed natural rights, those rights that men hold by virtue of their nature as men. Major liberal movements founded on these principles advanced the cause of liberty in the ensuing years. 新しい作り上がりで自然法が天賦人権、人の性質のせいで持つ権利、を支持する。この原則で後年で自由を求める運動が始まった。

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I'm a libertarian. I prefer reading articles and books to listening to podcasts, although I hear that podcasts are more popular. Call it Picard's Syndrome.
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