[MD] NAP
MarshaV
marshalz at charter.net
Mon Jun 8 06:49:55 PDT 2009
Ron, you've made an excellent point!!!
At 09:34 AM 6/8/2009, you wrote:
>Nick, You use the terms "Justice" and "liberty"
>as though they stand for objective universal
>truths. MoQ rejects objective universal views. -Ron
>Â ________________________________ From:
>blue-jay maple <libertytree at mail.com> To:
>moq_discuss at moqtalk.org Sent: Monday, June 8,
>2009 9:31:25 AM Subject: Re: [MD] NAP > Ron: > I
>have only these quotes, which I agree with, to
>provide an > understanding about > why I think
>the idea of natural law and MoQ conflict. > by
>Pierre Charron in his De la sagesse (1601): "The
>sign of a > natural law must be the universal
>respect in which it is held, for > if there was
>anything that nature had truly commanded us to
>do, we > would undoubtedly obey it universally:
>not only would every nation > respect it, but
>every individual. Instead there is nothing in
>the > world that is not subject to contradiction
>and dispute, nothing > that is not rejected, not
>just by one nation, but by many; equally, >
>there is nothing that is strange and (in the
>opinion of many) > unnatural that is not
>approved in many countries, and authorized by >
>their customs." Nick: What Pierre Charron
>doesn't realize is free-will. Natural Law is
>completely about free-will. This is why when
>natural law is understood those that violate it
>are brought to justice. Justice is born of
>Liberty. Pierre Charron seems to be talking
>about Newtonian applications of natural law
>which completely perverts it's real meaning.
>Ron: > And > "Aristotle > Greek philosophy
>emphasized the distinction between "nature" >
>(physis, ÏúÏιÏ) on the one hand and "law",
>"custom", or > "convention" (nomos, νóμοÏ)
>on the other. What the law > commanded varied
>from place to place, but what was "by nature" >
>should be the same everywhere. A "law of nature"
>would therefore > have had the flavor more of a
>paradox than something which > obviously
>existed." Nick: Liberty is a natural law. It
>makes no bias except to bring justice. Justice
>to those that violate liberty, life (person),
>and property. That's it so it's not a very
>long understanding to master. So since liberty
>molds no bias various social customs flourish
>everywhere. Billions of people on this earth
>demonstrate how liberty does not bias and thus
>why the unique diversity in the billions. thanks
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