The Purposeful Polis
Catholic thought on good governance and human flourishing
John Mackey has provided an exceptional example of how a businessman can be remarkably successfully while still adhering to high ethical standards.However, what Mackey has definitively not provided is a comprehensive answer to the depraved state of capitalism in America today.
When it comes to marriage and holidays, our society encourages us to “celebrate” long before the Big Day has arrived, often leaving us feeling empty when the festivities have subsided. Catholicism offers a better, more fulfilling and sustainable alternative.
Like birth control, the technological advantages of drone warfare have only created new problems and exacerbated old ones.
It is not the case that, since to act against your conscience is always wrong, acting in accord with your conscience cannot be wrong; it can be, and for many people, it is.
A recent Huffington Post article left me convinced that I had stumbled upon some brilliant, albeit disturbing, Huxleyan satire of modern society. Yet, despite my hopes to the contrary, it became abundantly clear that what I was reading was not a fan fiction prequel to Brave New World, but was instead an entirely non-fictitious human being’s vision for a better world.
Conservatives need fewer self-congratulatory sound-bytes and more substantive analysis, grounded in principled realism.
There is a need for a more in-depth explanation of the Tao, and how it includes, but does not equate to, the natural law tradition of Aquinas.
I’m on record saying that effectively dissolving the contemporary Republican Party might be what’s best- but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to listen to well thought-out prescriptions that address how the GOP can save itself
If the Founding Fathers were able to successfully fuse liberalism with natural law, it is not a conception of natural law that has much internal consistency exclusive to the pre-modern Western understanding of the term.
Introducing the latest EP channel, The Purposeful Polis: One part Augustine, one part Aquinas- a comprehensively Catholic take on politics.
