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Ben Kercheval's avatar

Thanks for a thought-provoking essay. I think of Alasdair MacIntyre’s work and O. Carter Snead’s “What It Means to be Human” as exemplary in this regard.

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polistra's avatar

Dogs know natural law FAR better than people do. Most dogs haven't read Aristotle or Aquinas.

The notion that reason comes before morality seems to be part of Catholic intellectual tradition. It's backwards. Reason is how we justify BREAKING natural law. Any decision at all can be defended validly by reason.

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