thanks for the suggestions! when i was googling around for ideas aquinas and locke continued to come up, so that makes sense that they’re both integral

i’ll post some more context around what i’m trying to better understand below, and maybe you can tailor which books i should prioritise first? …

i’ve only just finished reading “The Ethics of Liberty” and the opening chapter were something like ‘An Introduction to Natural Law’ which i found quite hard to follow

after finishing the book i came out with the opinion that a lot of the libertarian view is based upon the natural rights of life, liberty and property

but, (this was prior to finishing the book) when discussing natural rights / law with a friend he asked the very obvious and legitimate question of “what is a natural right? and what is natural law?” and i sort of stumbled on my words

considering libertarianism seems downstream of natural law, and that seems downstream of these natural rights (life, liberty and property); it only makes sense that i understand WHY these are the particular natural rights (and not any other rights), and HOW we decided that these are the natural rights (i.e. WHAT constitutes something being a natural right)?