The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Natural Law

Where divine law—a corrective to human reason via its republication of natural law—is shunned, natural law will be ignored.

The law of contradiction, for example, does not preclude transgenderism or abortion or even that 2+2=5 under a certain conception of reality, especially political reality. The anchoring axioms undergirding the worldview Arkes and myself share are encouraged, reinforced, protected by the customs, norms, and traditions that, in a way, they produce. But, in turn and in circular fashion, the maintenance of the effects is required to maintain the authoritative presence of anchoring axioms in a relative and subjective but no less real sense. Cultural sensibilities must be trained to notice the right things and draw the right conclusions therefrom. Constructed socio-political realities are either conducive to embrace of things per se nota or they are not. There is no neutrality even amongst ordinary people who are not magically insulated from the digressions of elite opinion. The first principle of practical reason depends on apprehension of the good and, conversely, privation of the good (evil).

The truth will always out, sure enough, but not always before a society or a civilization has descended fully down into the depths of what the apostle Paul describes in Romans 1—complete moral degradation accomplished only by the suppression of the knowledge of God at the behest of sophistical philosophers, as the traditional reading of the passage would have it.