natural-law

Whatever your feelings about the Irish Senate, it is certainly a highly interesting institution, and (as I understand it) was inspired largely by the Catholic Corporatist tradition, drawing on natural-law and neo-scholastic thought from the late Middle Ages, that was popular in Catholic circles during the 1920-1940 period.

Matthew Yglesias » Senate “What Ifs” 2010

Most of the people who comment on this blog, whether they do so from a Christian natural-law base or from a more utilitarian philosophy, seem to want, to the exclusion of everything else, a way of finding the right moral answer in every instance, and are using thought experiments reflectively with moral frameworks to determine both what the correct framework is and what the correct (in) actions are for the thought experiments.

Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion 2010

“The only proper framework for moral reasoning remains, as always, the teleological natural-law understanding of man and his purpose.”

Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories 2009

The only proper framework for moral reasoning remains, as always, the teleological natural-law understanding of man and his purpose. pseudonymous in nc Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories 2009

I just want to make clear that my opposition here is based on moral and natural-law grounds rather then on feminist ones.

Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs 2010

“The natural-law jurisprudence reflected in passages from the few early judicial opinions relied upon by the Attorney General has been discredited for many years...”

The Volokh Conspiracy » From the California Supreme Court’s Prop. 8 Decision: 2009

By using natural-law like arguments at the federal level in the context of a Constitutional argument, the Supreme Court has created rights that have nothing to do with a written constitution, and which can never be regulated or controlled by the people or their legislators.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Constitutional Right to Self-Defense? 2009

And natural-law arguments are at the core of the church's ban on birth control.

Next, A Tougher Stand On Birth Control 2008

The natural-law tradition is neither limited to Roman clerics and Protestant academics nor alien to American political life.

Huckabee and Social Conservatives Ryan T. Anderson 2008

Two related big-picture points occur tome: 1. It seems to me that everyone here has some idea of an age at which sex with a peer is a very “bad” thing, reagrdless of whether “bad” is derived from Leviticus, or some natural-law morality denontological belief, or social science about emotional development, or just STDs and pregnancy.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Abstinence Education Do Anything? 2007