Kody W. Cooper. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2018; 2022. Thomas Hobbes occupies a special place in the…
Abundantly does Adam Smith use “liberty” in The Wealth of Nations (WN).[1] “Liberty” usually means “allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way” (WN…
Eugenics became a major focus of intellectual consideration in the first half of the twentieth century. While some Protestant social reformers were often enthusiastic supporters of the…
Natural Law and Human Rights. Pierre Manent. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2020. A student shows up for office hours, wedging his large frame into…
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss were both driven to reconsider the status of the knowability of the natural law by their opposition to the regnant dogmas of…
I It is often said that Judaism is a religion for Jews. Judaism teaches that the people of Israel are chosen for a divine mission, that God…
Natural law is both a moral and legal theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and therefore has validity everywhere.…
The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode. R. J. Snell. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014. To borrow a line, R. J. Snell’s The…