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Ideas for Agrippa, Michael V. Wedin and Michel Foucault

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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

21940	Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault]
	Full Idea: The decision 'to prefer the risk of death to the certainty of having to obey' is the 'last anchor point' for any assertion of rights, 'one more solid and closer to the experience than "natural rights"'.
	From: Michel Foucault (works [1978], EW III:449)
	A reaction: I recall a group of Afrikaan men going to face certain death, rather than give up apartheid.