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Showing posts with label John Finnis on Eternal Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Finnis on Eternal Law. Show all posts
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Reasonable Myth and Revelation, Part 2

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C ONTINUING FROM OUR LAST POST that left off with the Platonic reason-based "myth" of the puppeteer and the puppet, we now post ou...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Reasonable Myth and Revelation, Part 1

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R EASON IS A FOUNDATIONAL BULWARK of any theory of natural law, and it is self-evident that the life of reason is a basic value which ought ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: St. Thomas and Eternal Law

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F INNIS'S PENULTIMATE CHAPTER in his Natural Law and Natural Rights purports to "provide summary elucidation of that famous phrase...
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Monday, May 2, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Seeds of Eternal Law in Plato

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N EITHER PLATO NOR ARISTOTLE BUILD THEIR ethics on the existence of God top-down according to John Finnis. It is not to God that they look ...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Seeds of Eternal Law in Aristotle

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W E CAN DETECT SEEDS OF THE ETERNAL LAW and seminal notions that the natural law is nothing other than the participation by man in the etern...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Eternal Law, Part 2

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R EASON CAN ESTABLISH THE EXISTENCE OF GOD as Uncaused Cause with certainty. Chance alone is unable to explain the reality of the state of ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Eternal Law, Part 1

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T HE FACULTY OF REASON IS AT ITS WEAKEST when confronted by the Uncaused Cause (which we now capitalize in recognition of His divinity) of t...