The recovery of the classical idea of natural right
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The lecture,“Natural Right” (1946), a 34-page long typescript, is perhaps the text closest chronologically and in content to the Walgreen Lectures of 1949, which wound up incorporating a significant part of the text of the typescript, with small modifications in the introduction and in the analysis of the modern change from duties into rights. This precursor text illuminates the central argument of Natural Right and History as a whole. The lecture is devoted to the history of natural right, but its core is the presentation of the transformation of the idea of natural justice into the modern doctrine of the rights of man, for which a high price had to be paid. Such a transformation eventually being called into question by the crisis of natural right, a crisis that opened the possibility of recovering the problem of natural right as originally understood.
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