Articles tagged as Justin Dyer
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AUDIO: “Slavery and Natural Law”–Prof. Justin Dyer on Liberty Watch Radio
JWI Affiliated Scholar Justin Dyer recently joined Charles Heller on Liberty Watch Radio to discuss the place of reasoning from the Natural Law in public life, and especially its relevance to the Supreme Court’s debates about the issue of slavery leading up to the Civil War. Professor Dyer fielded questions from callers as well as Mr. […] -
“Secular Materialism Can’t Make Sense of Reality” by Professor Justin Dyer
Writing in The Public Discourse ”Secular Materialism Can’t Make Sense of Reality“, Professor Justin Dyer, a JWI Affiliated Scholar, confronts the philosophies of materialism which seem to increasingly gain prominence in modern society. Pointing to the thoughts of modern philosophers such as Saul Smilansky, he observes that secular materialism, which reduces “every thought, every hope, and every […] -
“The March for Life and the Emptiness of Conservative Jurisprudence”—Prof. Hadley Arkes in The Catholic Thing
Writing in The Catholic Thing, Prof. Arkes critiques the mainstream conservative jural response to abortion. Only when judges and legislators are past the empty formulas of what is considered “conservative jurisprudence” can they deal with the moral substance of the issue. “The drift of opinion [on the supposed right to abortion] has also exposed the poverty […]