If anyone wants to dive into the primary sources on the relationship of natural law and natural rights, you can't do better than take the Davenant Hall spring 2022 course, "Is 'Rights' Where It All Went Wrong?". Brad Littlejohn, who will be teaching the class, has written a nice post about it here. A taste:
Is it possible to disentangle the good uses of rights—as securing human dignity and limiting the power of the state—from the anarchic, revolutionary logic of so many modern rights claims? This is a question which many thoughtful political and moral philosophers have begun asking in recent decades.
I've posted more than a few times on the subject (try here, here, and here) but Brad is a scholar of field and I highly recommend taking this class.
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