Pierre Manent’s Natural Law and Human Rights
Natural Law and Human Rights. Pierre Manent. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2020. A student shows up for office hours, wedging his large frame into…
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss on the Natural Law: Differing Approaches
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss were both driven to reconsider the status of the knowability of the natural law by their opposition to the regnant dogmas of…
Noahide Commandments and Natural Law
I It is often said that Judaism is a religion for Jews. Judaism teaches that the people of Israel are chosen for a divine mission, that God…
Natural Law
Natural law is both a moral and legal theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and therefore has validity everywhere.…
Love and Natural Law
The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode. R. J. Snell. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014. To borrow a line, R. J. Snell’s The…