Hadley Arkes: Mere Natural Law

Is there a “law” hidden beneath the written law? Hadley Arkes, professor of law for nearly fifty years, and host Eric Metaxas sit down to discuss how the framers of the Constitution regarded the “self-evident” truths of the Natural Law as foundational.
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[@ntme333]

Morals, these people have none. We are 5 min late. It's a sad state of afairs. I love your conversations, my Dad has passed,and many names you mention. Books were our favorite conversations

[@1stGruhn]

"we hold these trues to be self evident' to a post reason world, nothing is self evident. While I largely agree with Arkes, the problem is always who gets to decide. Only those who acknowledge a transcendent standard have a solid benchmark off which to judge. If you don't, 'man will do what is good in their own eyes'. Appealing to 'natural' law in a world of self reference will be disastrous. I'd rather have the originalists view in office as that is a means of restraining the subjectivists. Reason requires beliefs presumed true off which to make judgements. You cannot escape faith in those presumed truths. In a civil environment, who gets to decide which presumptions are held as legal standards? How do we restrain tyranny?

[@geoffstockton]

Their problem is, those who appeal to a “transcendent standard”, none of them can agree on that standard. Morality is actually really simple. What harm does a thing cause? What benefit does a thing cause? From there, you arrive at your moral conclusion about any given proposition.

[@1stGruhn]

@@geoffstockton But the problem isn't that simple: you can't derive an ought from what is. Saying you must pursue the beneficial doesn't alleviate the reality that every policy benefits some but harms others: there is always a cost. Justice is far more than equity, and not all equity is just. A real issue is that consensus isn't a truth maker.

[@raymondkb2nzo788]

They are blurring the the law.

[@ntme333]

Reshaping America and we are 5 minutes late!!!

[@wallyreyes8876]

Mudding up the waters

[@raymondtaylor6049]

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[@ryang7759]

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[@MrFboccia]

I keep coming back to Eric only to get pissed off again and again that he doesn’t shut up

[@chuckdambrosia3933]

Go watch the View & MSNBC. It's more your speed. The discourse in this video will short-circuit your few brain neurotransmitters. Your comment about Eric proves they're being overloaded & stressed to critical capacity.

[@Pet.Wifey.Voice.Of.Reason]

@@chuckdambrosia3933 Yea, I'm sure that persuading someone to appreciate Metaxas' style of being more conversational than of just being a one-sided interviewer is not necessary. Just go ahead and insult that person out of left field. I'm sure that would work better.

[@raymondtaylor6049]

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[@derrick1340]

*promosm* 😕

[@ncbncb77]

Arkes is not really the best listener here