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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Leo Strauss and Natural Right, Part 1: Introduction
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L EO STRAUSS (1899-1973) will be the focus of our next several blog postings. In particular, we shall focus upon Leo Strauss's understa...
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...
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