Post by RS Davis on Mar 7, 2004 5:08:01 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]RS Davis Wrote:[/glow] Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man's behavior does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies: "To hell with your standard.".... Quarrelling means trying to show the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you an he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are; just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer had committed a foul unless there was an agreement about the rules of football.
This concept is known as Natural Law, or Natural Rights. Lewis believed that this natural moral code came from God. Others, like the Physiocrats, from whom I stole my masthead, believed this came from the immutable laws of Nature. I don’t really give two shits which you believe – it is irrelevant to our purposes here today, and the result is the same – so just pick one, and we’ll move on.
- Rick
This concept is known as Natural Law, or Natural Rights. Lewis believed that this natural moral code came from God. Others, like the Physiocrats, from whom I stole my masthead, believed this came from the immutable laws of Nature. I don’t really give two shits which you believe – it is irrelevant to our purposes here today, and the result is the same – so just pick one, and we’ll move on.
- Rick
