The political wisdom of Edmund Burke
When is civil disobedience necessary?
Douglas Farrow examines the relation between “the kings of the earth” and the law of Christ, particularly when governmental law is exercised without reference to natural or divine law. (49 minutes)
Education, reason, and the Good
Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson on C. S. Lewis’s argument about natural law
Music without emotivism
Julian Johnson discusses how novel, historically speaking, is the idea of complete relativism in musical judgment. (33 minutes)
Creation, natural law, and ecological concerns
Christopher Thompson discusses our need to grow in wisdom and humility, that we might flourish in this ordered cosmos in which we live. (16 minutes)
Principles have to be discovered, not chosen
Alasdair MacIntyre on the problem of natural law and contemporary culture
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 124
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John Fea, Robert F. Rea, John C. Pinheiro, R. J. Snell, Duncan G. Stroik, Kate Tamarkin, and Fiona Hughes
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Richard Sherlock: “The Secret of Straussianism”
Richard Sherlock explores the significance of political philosopher Leo Strauss’s methodology, focusing on how he understood the communication of ideas in classical and modern thought about political order. (36 minutes)