tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post7707485019538139148..comments2024-03-29T08:47:16.366-05:00Comments on Dad29: Hitchens v. That Troubling "Law"Dad29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-36769239307297369022011-12-23T21:03:33.635-06:002011-12-23T21:03:33.635-06:00Precisely.Precisely.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12897315.post-17772932165493102542011-12-23T17:52:23.232-06:002011-12-23T17:52:23.232-06:00The Pope, of course, credits the natural law argum...The Pope, of course, credits the natural law argument to the pre-Christian stoics: he made something of a point of that in the speech to the German parliament that you kindly sent me. I took his point to be that it was not necessary to be religious to see the value in having a natural law standard against which to test the justice of positive law; and that's surely correct. It's pretty bold to bring up the Nazis in a speech to the German parliament, but the point is entirely valid: if the only law is positive law, there's no reason to reject the Nazi laws, which were enacted by what was recognized as a legitimate (and legitimately elected) government. One must have the natural law to which we can appeal.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com