Some philosophers distinguish two types of rights, natural rights and legal rights.
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke, "Life, Liberty, Estate (property)"
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Tucker
Leo Strauss
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Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and historian of philosophy whose work greatly influenced twentieth-century political theory in the United States and the study of classical pol
Natural rights and legal rights
…adhered to egoism include Benjamin Tucker, John Beverley Robinson, Steven T. Byington, Hutchins Hapgood, James L. Walker, Victor Yarros and E.H. Fulton. Leo Strauss defends natural right against German critiques of a sort that pave the way to the Third Reich in his Walgreen lectures and in later works also entering…
Strauss in 1939
The University of Chicago, the school with which Strauss is most closely associated
Strauss's study of philosophy and political discourses produced by the Islamic civilization—especially those of Al-Farabi (pictured) and Maimonides—was instrumental in the development of his theory of reading.