Abortion and Natural Law | Hadley Arkes
June 6, 2023
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as posted by the channelIn this episode:
- Hadley Arkes, founder and director of the James Wilson Institute, joins the podcast to discuss his newest book, Mere Natural Law.
- How the Dobbs ruling dodged the essential moral questions at the heart of abortion, and why conservative jurisprudence has failed to do so.
- How principles of natural law are so suffused into America’s law and the American regime that they are inseparable from any judgments about law in the judiciary.
Texts Mentioned:
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution by Hadley Arkes
First Things by Hadley Arkes
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
Roe v. Wade
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
Lectures on Law by James Wilson
Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths by Hadley Arkes
Natural Rights and the Right to Choose by Hadley Arkes
ISI Homecoming, June 2-3, 2023
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