Conservative Conversations with ISI Hadley Arkes on “Mere Natural Law,” Abortion, and the Logic of Law and Morals
May 16, 2023
45:25
In 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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