By DCT | December 8, 2009
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
“The expression ‘life, liberty, and property’ in the Fourteenth Amendment reflects the influence of natural law theory. The Bill of Rights assumes a doctrine of natural and unalienable rights. “A law which is not just is a law in name only,” says Augustine.”
Most people are confused by the use of the [...]
Posted in Natural Law | Also tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Bill of Rights, Cicero, Fourteenth Amendement, Greek Philosophy, Hegel, John Locke, Kant, Mortimer J. Adler, Natural Law, Plato |
By DCT | February 13, 2009
The “Second Treatise of Government,” written by John Locke, was composed between 1685 and 1688. His ideas had a great influence on the thinking of our founding fathers. While meditating on the following quote, ask yourself, where am I currently being affected by a violation of Locke’s idea of, “a standing rule to [...]
