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That's what's entailed by what she wrote about rights. Rights are about living in the social world, and the various social interactions required, and the expectations we can have of others with regard to how they treat us, and so on. Plants can't initiate force; cows can't initiate force; viruses can't initiate force; tornadoes can't initiate force. If something lacks any conceptual capacity whatsoever, it can't initiate force, nor can it have rights. Sure, you might want some kind of defense or insurance against things that go wrong, but things that are not sentient don't require government intervention for you to fight, because one doesn't need to relegate the use of force against those without rights (viruses).

I’d like to record a link telling the remarkable life of my first philosophy professor Francis J. Kovach. I relayed in the course of my paper the way of Thomas Aquinas on the situation of transcendentals (such as unity, truth, goodness, and beauty) with being. At the time I wrote that (2013), I was not yet aware of a book by Jan A. Aertsen titled Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought (2012). This book has since become a tremendous help to me in better understanding the history of medieval metaphysics (Arabic and Latin) in its developments from Aristotle and the relation of medieval thought to early modern philosophy, including the transcendental idealism of Kant.

“As for the necessary appetitive effect of the esthetic experience, focally the experience of beautiful fine art, it is a desire flowing directly from the esthetic judgment and its keep in knowledge and flowing indirectly from the esthetic intuition and delight. For the moment the beholder intuits the beauty of an object, an esthetic love is born, one assuming the specific character of esthetic joy or delight possessed in that moment of beholding. The object of this desire is not only or firstly the enjoyment of the previously beheld beauty. Rather, it is the desire to face that particular beauty again (PB 315–16). So I long to again walk around Mercury in Firenze and to again stand gazing a long while into On the Terrace in Chicago. Face to face.” (photo — 2/27/20)