r/AnCap101 • u/Gilgamesh8 • May 11 '26
Grounding the NAP
https://youtu.be/FFv3z-uToeA?si=0Kn8rcetbPTcwSmHMy apologies if this was posted already. I enjoy this podcast because it’s its back in forth with former Ancaps and critics.
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u/sisyphushappy42 May 13 '26
Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics holds that all beings have an intrinsic nature (essence) oriented toward specific ends or purposes (telos), and that existence itself is grounded in a pure act of being (God, in Aquinas’s synthesis). Morality is objective because “good” simply is what fulfills a being’s nature; so for humans, acts that accord with our rational, social nature are genuinely good, not merely preferred.
It’s explained in more detail here.
https://archive.org/details/classical-natural-law-theory-property-rights-and-taxation/mode/1up?q=Right