Individual natural human rights are considered one of the great contributions of the glorious Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, so the professor thought he was on safe ground in asking such a thing of the miserable Middle Ages. Well, what do you know; a few years later, medievalist Brian Tierney’s The Idea of Natural Rights traced this concept back to medieval philosophers, including St. Thomas Aquinas.
-Diane Moczar
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