Online Seminar Series: Is Natural Law Real?
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Date & Time
Sat, Aug 20 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Online Seminar Series
Is Natural Law Real?
Saturday, August 20, 2022
The term natural law is a little hazy. Is natural law simply a more authoritative version of positive law? And if that is true, how might we understand how the founders of the American republic came to believe in the proposition that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights which are self-evident truths? Conversely, does science and civil law show us that there are no natural laws, rather only values?
If natural law is real is it grounded in the metaphysical or in something else? How do we reconcile the problems of the is and ought, skepticism, positivism, notions of right and wrong, teleology, scientism, the connection between virtue and happiness, and human dignity.
We invite you to join us as we attempt to clarify what natural law means. We will read and discuss works by Sophocles, Heraclitus, Protagoras, Thrasymachus (in Plato), Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, the American founders, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr, as well as the The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, among other works.
Reading for August 20:
Selections from Cicero – On the Republic Bk3; P 32-43 and Bk6; P 9-29, and
On the Laws Bk1; P 22-63 and Bk2; P 7-13.
Oxford University Press; Reissue edition (July 2009)
ISBN – 978-0199540112
Schedule:
12:00-2:00PM PDT
Tutor:
Carl Bobkoski
Location:
Online. Register to receive the link.