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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Haidt—The Righteous Mind, Chs. 7 & 8 by “Leftists are Motivated by Self-Interest and Envy, Not Compassion: The Evidence” a rough transcript of a video by Edward Dutton – The Orthosphere
[…] [2] https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.com/2016/08/18/haidt-the-righteous-mind-chs-7-8/ […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “So don’t go calling the cops on me.” Too late! LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I did not. I was busy fixing typos in my own post. There are probably still typos there, but that just makes it a garden-variety Irfan Khawaja post. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. (So if you downloaded the Krakow version, dump it and replace it with the OB version.) LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The first one is the one most relevant to your post. It’s also shorter than the second one. I just changed the link to the second one, btw. I originally posted an earlier draft (the Krakow version). I changed it to t…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’ll see if I can read the first of those by tomorrow’s discussion. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” by Roderick T. Long
Can’t resist self-citation here: a) https://praxeology.net/legal-naturalism-disjunc.pdf b) Also related: http://praxeology.net/Spooner-OB.doc LikeLiked by 1 person
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Nervous Shakedown: Scenes from a Police Detention (1) by “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” | Policy of Truth
[…] “terrorism” in Medina sense, not what I myself regard as terrorism. So don’t go calling the cops on […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Terrorism Justified: A Response to Vicente Medina by “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law” | Policy of Truth
[…] an example of case (4), consider the thought-experiment I used to justify “terrorism” in my critique of Vicente Medina… The Machiavellian-Lockean scheme I described there would not, on my view (and on the generic […
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(Policy of Truth) “An Unjust Law Is Not a Law”
According to Augustine, Aquinas, and Martin Luther King, Jr., an unjust law is no law at all. I’ll call this thesis ULNL, relying more on Aquinas’s version of it than Augustine’s or MLK’s. ULNL is, famously or notoriously, a staple of natural law theorizing. Though sympathetic to what he calls “the minimal content of natural…
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