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February 02, 2009

PBR: Aristotle on What is Wrong with Socialism

In response to the question, “What is wrong with socialism?” Writing well over 2000 years ago, Aristotle answered Plato, whose Republic advocated socialism, thusly: What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Continue Reading...

October 28, 2008

Birth of Freedom Shorts Series: How did Plato and Aristotle justify slavery?

In this week’s Birth of Freedom short video Sam Gregg, author of On Ordered Liberty, discusses the views that two influential ancient philosophers held regarding human equality and the practice of slavery. Continue Reading...

February 05, 2008

Oh, what might have been!

From a review in the New Yorker magazine (HT) of David Levering Lewis, God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215, in which the author clearly regrets that the Arabs did not go on to conquer the rest of Europe. Continue Reading...

October 31, 2006

The Catholicity of the Reformation: Musings on Reason, Will, and Natural Law, Part 5

This post examines Peter Martyr Vermigli’s understanding of natural law, while Part 6 will take up the natural-law thinking of Jerome Zanchi, Martyr’s former student and colleague. Martyr was born in Florence in 1499, entered the Augustinian Canons, and took a doctorate in theology at the leading center of Renaissance Aristotelianism, the University of Padua. Continue Reading...

October 24, 2006

The Catholicity of the Reformation: Musings on Reason, Will, and Natural Law, Part 4

As promised in Part 3, this post will begin a discussion of natural law in the thought of the Reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562), but first I want to touch on the broader issue of natural law in the context of Reformation theology. Continue Reading...

October 09, 2006

The Catholicity of the Reformation: Musings on Reason, Will, and Natural Law, Part 2

As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series, my aim is to probe the natural-law doctrines of only a few influential sixteenth-century Protestant theologians. Some, such as John Calvin, may already be familiar to you, while others, such as Peter Martyr Vermigli (known as Martyr) and Jerome Zanchi, may be entirely new. Continue Reading...

July 17, 2006

World Cups of Philosophy and Theology

For those of you who are going through World Cup withdrawal after the defeat of the French by the Azzurri have a little comfort. I give you the World Cups of Philosophy and Theology. Continue Reading...

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