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标题：Aristotle and the Natural Rights Tradition
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作者：Fred D. Miller
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1988
卷号：13
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：J ohn Hospers remarks that "we speak of 'natural rights' or 'hurnan rights9--rights that human beings have 'because of their very nature as human beings': for example, the right to life, the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness."' The theoretical origins of natural rights, which have an important place in Hospers' own political theory, may be traced throughJohn Locke f 1622-P'a04), Thomas Hobbes (1588- 16"89), Richard Hooker (1554-1600), Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Cicero 4106-43 BC), and many others back to hstotle (384322 BC).P This paper is concerned specifically with, Mseotle9s place in this tradition. 1 contend, against many interpreters,f that not only is Ariseode a proponent of natural rights, but that they play %ra important sole in his political theory,' The argument of this paper complements the arguments in some other recent works that Mstotle's teleological view of human nature and his ethical theory of mdaimonia (laappiness or flourishing) can serve as a foundation for a theory of individual rights &n to Eocke's."