Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler Anchoring Truths, Natural Law, and Moral Order — A Conversation with Professor Hadley Arkes
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Jul 19, 2023 AI Snips
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Roots Of Moral Judgment
- Hadley Arkes traces his intellectual formation to Leo Strauss and Harry Jaffa and the recovery of moral, nonrelative truths.
- He argues those accessible truths ground political judgment and inform constitutional reasoning beyond mere text.
Ordinary Judgment Matters
- Arkes stresses ordinary people still grasp basic moral truths that theory-classes deny.
- He insists the founders appealed to such accessible moral principles when framing equality and obligation.
Transgender Case Example
- Arkes uses the Gorsuch Harris transgender case to show theory blinding ordinary sense of sex differences.
- He illustrates how legal formalism can yield rulings ordinary people find ludicrous.