What Natural Rights Do I have? w/ Prof. V. Bradley Lewis (Off-Campus Conversations)

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. V. Bradley Lewis about his latest Thomistic Institute, "It's My Right: What Are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have?". What Natural Rights Do I Have? w/ Dr. V. Bradley Lewis and Fr. Gregory Pine (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/prof-v-bradley-lewis-its-my-right-what-are-natural-rights-and-what-rights-do-we-have For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: V. Bradley Lewis is associate professor in the School of Philosophy in the Catholic University of America. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, especially that of the classical Greeks and in the Thomistic tradition, and is currently working on a book on the idea of the common good. In addition to these things he has served as a consultant on ethics to the federal government, testified before a congressional subcommittee about immigration, and currently serves as associate editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine.
0:11.6	I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph, and welcome back to the
0:15.4	Tomistic Institute podcast for this most recent installment of off-campus conversations.
0:20.7	So the goal here is to follow up with the Tomistic Institute speaker who will have given an
0:24.7	intervention at a campus or at a retreat or at a conference.
0:29.1	So that way we can pursue the principles, the arguments proposed therein with greater rigor and vigor.
0:35.0	So today I'm joined by Professor V. Bradley Lewis from the Catholic
0:38.2	University of America. Thanks so much for tuning in, or thanks so much for joining in, I should say.
0:44.7	Thank you. Thank you very much, Father. It's pleasure to be here. Yeah, I don't know why I said
0:48.7	tuning in. That would make you sound like a passive observer to an interview that you yourself
0:53.3	are the protagonist of.
0:55.4	But I'll learn how to use verbs at some point in my life.
0:57.8	Today's not the day, though.
0:58.7	Okay, so many of the Thomistic Institute podcast listeners will know you from past lectures that you've given,
1:05.0	which have appeared on the podcast.
1:06.8	For those who don't know you, though, would you just say a word of introduction,
1:09.9	who you are, where you're from, what you do?
1:12.1	So I teach political philosophy at Catholic University here in Washington.
1:16.9	I've done that since 1997, and I teach and write mostly about political, legal philosophy, ethics, things related to that.
1:26.6	Okay. Excellent. So when people hear that, they kind of situated
1:33.0	within philosophy or they're situated within political philosophy or within politics or PPE.
1:37.0	What is the nature of the program that you have there at Catholic University of America?
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