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Showing posts with label Désiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier on Natural Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Désiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier on Natural Law. Show all posts
Friday, August 13, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 20: The Christian Concept of the State

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L EAVING THE ERRORS of the pantheistic, social contract, liberal, and organic theories of State behind him, Mercier then provides a Christia...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 19: Rights of the State

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T HE TERM RIGHTS OF THE STATE has an unfamiliar ring to it, but it is shorthand for the ensemble of "juridical [legal] relations which ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 18: Family Rights

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T HAT THE FAMILY HAS RIGHTS, natural rights at that, is forgotten in modern Western thought. The family has suffered assault from the exist...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 17, Respect of Property

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P ROPERTY IS AN IMPORTANT but not absolute right in Mercier's view. "Property, as synonymous with ownership, is the right to use a...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 16: Individual Right to Opinion and Expression

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F REEDOM OF OPINION AND OF EXPRESSION OF THAT OPINION is Mercier's next topic under the category of individual right. Mercier distingui...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 15: Individual Right to Life and Work

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L IFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY are the three headings under which Cardinal Mercier organizes his discussion of the rights of the individual in...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 14: Natural Law, Right, and Duty

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F ROM GENERAL ETHICS, Cardinal Mercier goes into special ethics. His introduction to the topic of special ethics begins with clarification ...