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The judge as moral philosopher

April 17, 2013Tim Kowal 25 Comments

Reviewing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner’s Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts in the Claremont Review of Books, David Forte exposes Justice Scalia’s famous legal positivism as moral philosophy by another name.  “They call false,”… Continue Reading →

Natural Law books, garner, natural law, originalism, positivism, reading law, Scalia, textualism

The Limited Moral Case Against Wealth Inequality

November 2, 2012Tim Kowal 28 Comments

Submitted for comment, the below is a portion of a long piece I’ve been working on for some time on the role of government in the modern U.S. economy, including its role in addressing the limited problems with inequality of… Continue Reading →

Economics, Natural Law, Political Theory

If I Ran the National Park Service

October 25, 2012Tom Van Dyke 33 Comments
Healthcare, Morality, Natural Law

Self-evident truths

October 16, 2012Tim Kowal 4 Comments

Even children understand them: I have the right of education.  I have the right to play.  I have the right to sing.  I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market.  I have the right… Continue Reading →

Natural Law Malala Yousafzai, natural rights, positivism, Taliban, Yousufzai

Mortimer Adler on Plato, Legal Positivism, and Natural Law

September 22, 2012Tom Van Dyke 580 Comments

Via George Anastaplo’s “In Re Antonin Scalia”, wherein we see Scalia as a legal positivist and no natural lawyer, more a “modern” than a Catholic conservative. But first, the great Mortimer Adler on Plato: [In Plato’s Republic, we] find the… Continue Reading →

Law, Natural Law, Political Theory, Politics Adler, Scalia, Thrasymachus

Natural Law and the Giving of Justifications

September 4, 2012Tim Kowal 45 Comments

In my contribution to the Democracy Symposium, I acknowledged that modern economic realities may well require more of our government than our Founders contemplated some 22 decades ago.  CK MacLeod worries that, as a Constitutional Conservative, I’ve wandered into a… Continue Reading →

Natural Law natural law, natural rights, right reason

If you have an opinion on this post, congratulations, you’re doing natural law

August 10, 2012Tim Kowal

A dear friend, who has done premier work in the neural sciences and several books on philosophical psychology, remarked that he wanted, as the epitaph on his gravestone, "He died without a theory." A former colleague of mine remarked that… Continue Reading →

Natural Law hadley arkes, natural law

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