Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
Most people today “absolutely” maintain that they do not hold or live by
“absolutes.” They live by their desires and choices, which are readily
changeable. No one is much bothered by the “logic” of his own views. The
proposition that “No absolutes exist” is itself an absolute. If it is
true, an absolute exists. If […]
L. Joseph Hebert
Jean Louis de Lolme, writing in 1784 of the “omnipotence” of the British
legislature—and by implication of the modern state—remarks that
“parliament can do everything, except making a woman a man or a man a
woman.” Today, the striking thing about de Lolme’s qualification of
state power is its apparent naiveté. We live in a […]
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