Natural Right, autumn 1962

“Natural Right” has 16 sessions and audiofiles for 8 sessions: sessions 1 through 4 and sessions 13 through 16. The audiofile numbers correspond as follows to the sessions: 01=session 1; 02=session 2; 03=session 3A; 04=session 3B; 05=session 4A; 06=session 4B; 07=session 13 (second half only); 08=session 14A; 09=session 14B; 10=session 15A; 11=session 15B; 12=session 16A; 13=session 16B. The lectures discuss the thought of Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Burke, as well as the philosopher of science Ernest Nagel.

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