Do We Have Natural Rights I Professor Joseph Trabbic

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Joseph Trabbic is associate professor of philosophy at Ave Maria University, where he has taught since 2006. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University in 2008. His areas of interest include Aquinas, continental philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. He has published his work in various academic journals, including Religious Studies, The Heythrop Journal, and New Blackfriars.

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0:53.5	On October 7th, Hamas terrorists massacred hundreds of Israeli civilians in southern
1:01.0	Israel near the Gaza border.
1:05.1	Many Hamas sympathizers believed that these mass killings were justified.
1:10.6	But the rest of us saw it as a horrendous evil.
1:14.6	As a philosopher, I would say that a part of the evil
1:18.6	was that the natural or human rights of the victims were violated.
1:24.6	These natural rights were violated to the extent that innocent human life was destroyed.
1:30.3	The atrocities of October 7th are not the topic of my talk tonight,
1:37.3	but they are necessarily connected to my topic, which is natural rights.
1:42.3	By understanding natural rights, we will be able to understand
1:46.7	precisely why what was done in Israel was evil and why we should be outraged by it. Now, let me
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