Lex Christianorum

L E SAGE LOCKE , "the sagacious Locke," is what Voltaire called John Locke. Thomas Jefferson called Locke one of the three greates...

H OBBES TINKERED WITH, OR PERHAPS BETTER, SMASHED the classic notion of natural law. Everything was built on self-preservation, the fear of...

A VOIDANCE OF VIOLENT DEATH or self-preservation becomes the source of Hobbesian morality and the the root of Hobbesian justice. It also is...

L OCKE LIKED TO DRESS IN HOOKER'S ROBES, but underneath he wore Hobbes's breeches, or perhaps better his soiled skivvies. Richard Ho...

T HE THOMISTIC DOCTRINE OF NATURAL RIGHT is the last general type of classic natural right theory identified by Leo Strauss in his Natural R...