The Fading Sense of Citizenship by Hadley Arkes
But to ask what a “good citizen” or a good member of the political community would be is to bring us back to the original question of what the polis or the polity is.
Is it more like a hotel, where people take up residence? In that case, the connection generates no moral demands apart from the requirement of paying the rent and obeying the house rules. Or is the polis more truly, as Aristotle taught us, a moral association: a place where the members share certain understandings of the things that are just or unjust; where they agree to be ruled by procedures they regard, by and large, as just; and where they take it as their chief mission to cultivate that sense of justice among one another through the lessons they teach through the laws?
But for what end? So that they can live on their own? Or so they can live together? A liberal would probably not disagree with what is written here.
The Cruelty of Hedonism by Anthony Esolen
1 comment:
How about knowing the basis of the Natural Law? It's basis is Christ.
Here is a small article on the importance between Christ and the Natural Law:
"Christ, Reason (Logos) and Greek Philosophy"
It is about time that the so-called "Enlightenment" be demolished.
WLW
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