In Search of True Human Rights
I suppose people have believed from time immemorial that there are certain non-man-made rights of some kind. In the old…
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I suppose people have believed from time immemorial that there are certain non-man-made rights of some kind. In the old…
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Christianity has been under secular attack (as opposed to Islamic attack) for more than three centuries now, ever since the…
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Michael Pakaluk: “Happiness” is an essentially contested idea, but we’re far from able to peremptorily declare the Founders misguided.
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Robert Royal: If we’re to have a civil public square, we’ll need gratitude for the foundations that made America exceptional in human history.
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Hadley Arkes: It is a mystery that in 2020 so many failed to see that two Administrations had differences both systematic and morally momentous.
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Hadley Arkes: The American Founding was ultimately Catholic because it invoked natural law and natural rights to justify the cause of liberty.
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“The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.” — Pope Leo XIII Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, John Locke believed that morality could be justified on purely rational grounds. Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, he was also wary of […]
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Eduardo Echeverria: If “white” equates to “racist,” our institutions, though democratic, reflect determinism, and empty our actions of moral responsibility.
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On Human Dignity… “Much remains to be done to support those whose lives are wounded and to restore hope to those who are afraid of life. Courage is needed to resist pressures and false slogans, to proclaim the supreme dignity of all life, and to …
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