{"id":929,"date":"2017-06-04T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2023-01-29T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:03:57","slug":"rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights – a derivation from first principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article is a derivation of the concept of rights from first principles. This is the notion of natural rights consistent with The Jeffersonian Perspective<\/a>. Throughout this article, I shall use the term “man” to refer to a human being, not to gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man exists as a being of a certain nature, which is distinctly different than other beings. Man is a living being with the unique ability to reason. Man relies on his ability to reason for survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For man to exist qua man, as a living reasoning being according to his nature, certain conditions must exist. Man’s rationality is conditional upon being free to think and act according to his reasoning mind. Freedom is the absence of coercion and force from other men. The mind is impotent when man is threatened or attacked with the force of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rights are based on the mutual recognition of man’s nature and the conditions required for man’s survival. Rights are the mutual respect for freedom of thought and action so that man can exist according to his nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article is a derivation of the concept of rights from first principles. This is the notion of natural rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,23],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-philosophy","tag-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t