tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post5906425676927485839..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Search for Liberty; Chapter Ten: The Natural Law of C.S. Lewis bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-34384322184304754592022-04-27T05:18:34.040-07:002022-04-27T05:18:34.040-07:00The Legend of Sawney Bean is instructive in terms ...The Legend of Sawney Bean is instructive in terms of intergenerational morality transmission.ECONICShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646567792180546771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-68628295538631574012022-04-26T08:28:09.959-07:002022-04-26T08:28:09.959-07:00Physical natural law is passed on from generation ...Physical natural law is passed on from generation to generation but the concept of natural rights which is natural law applied to human nature, although understood by many, has not been passed along to future generations requiring that it be learned the hard way over and over again. ECONICShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646567792180546771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-87806701006775407052019-07-03T12:34:53.977-07:002019-07-03T12:34:53.977-07:00No law is preferable to anti-Christs and non-Chris...No law is preferable to anti-Christs and non-Christians. <br /><br />Undefined natural law is ironically preferable to antimonians and even some alleged pronomians.<br /><br />The defined triune moral law of God (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments)are promoted by Christians who recognize Yahweh's sovereignty and thus His moral law as government and society's standard.<br /><br />For more on how Yahweh's immutable moral law applies and should be implemented today, Google free online book "Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant."<br /><br />Then "A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government."<br />Ted R. Weilandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513069258387315741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-15109701776143154712019-07-02T21:35:00.298-07:002019-07-02T21:35:00.298-07:00ATL, when I was quite young and attending church a...ATL, when I was quite young and attending church and Sunday school every week...our church had a wonderful library, including several books from C.S. Lewis.<br /><br />As I remember it, even thought these were in the library we were warned against them. Why? I don't recall; could have been his using non-Christian words such as "Tao," could have been something about his personal life.<br /><br />I am only now reading him. And I think about how my life would have been different - and for the better - had I not been warned off him when I was young.<br /><br />"It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see."<br /><br />In a couple dozen words, he has said more than I have said in over 1600 blog posts. I could write a dozen posts just on this, and still not capture it any better than he has.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-30883655907685106292019-07-02T10:32:54.733-07:002019-07-02T10:32:54.733-07:00"the judge cannot be one of the parties judge..."the judge cannot be one of the parties judged; or, if he is, the decision is worthless" - C.S. Lewis<br /><br />C.S. Lewis the anarcho-capitalist? If only... <br /><br />Tolkien leaned toward philosophical anarchy (or unconstitutional monarchy) as the least bad of political alternatives. These two were very close for many years. I wonder what sorts of political discussions these two had.<br /><br />"There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgment of value in the history of the world. What purport to be new systems or (as they now call them) ‘ideologies’, all consist of fragments of the Tao itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole… The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves."<br /><br />What a powerhouse quote! I forgot about this one. EvKL and Chesterton have made similar statements, but none as good. Lewis' statement perfectly and amazingly succinctly describes why the Enlightenment (and all its Innovators) was not only a wrong turn on the road to real progress, but if left uncorrected, a suicidal one.<br /><br />"To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see."<br /><br />In a sentence, C.S. Lewis cuts through all the New Age, 'feel good', wanna be Eastern spirituality, hippy mumbo jumbo like a .50 cal through a wet paper bag.<br /><br />"A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery."<br /><br />I've had this one chalked onto a small black board at my desk at work for about a year now. I usually change the quote every few months, but this one it seems never gets old to me.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-57913669437047223152019-07-02T05:48:00.189-07:002019-07-02T05:48:00.189-07:00Very nice commentary.
"Many libertarians cla...Very nice commentary.<br /><br />"Many libertarians claim natural law as the basis for libertarianism, yet do not embrace the entirety of Natural Law – they do not ascribe to the fullness of man’s purpose, but only ascribe to purposes which are in conformance with non-aggression. In other words, the philosophy drives the purposes and not the other way around."<br /><br />The interesting thing about this is that often times it is overlooked that the NAP is a moral concept/statement.<br /><br />Therein lies the rub. Some would suggest that shooting a child over the theft of an apple is not a moral issue and "ok" within the realm of the NAP, but they damage their own arguments for adherence to the NAP(which as alluded to by Lewis- is in many respects a branch from the larger concept of Natural Law/Tao) by undermining the very concept of morality to which they appeal for the NAP.<br /><br />I find these people often claim there is no "Natural Rights", that any are solely at the discretion of man, but they fail to realize that their basis of their argument for the NAP outside of Natural Law requires some kind of Quid Pro Quo with men that have greater power/military might/guns...and frankly there is little incentive for such men of power outside the realm of Natural Law to concede any such agreement towards the concept of the NAP....Nick Badalamentihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14015961786370759940noreply@blogger.com