Monthly Archives: October 2009
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Love and Capitalism
This post is to justify and expound upon the leap from the individual to the corporate – from “Love your neighbor as yourself” to Capitalism – that I made in The Just Society. “Love your neighbor as yourself” is not only a command, but a definition. What is love? It is not replacing your own interests with someone else’s (indeed we would not be human if our own interests could be displaced), but defining your own interests as coincident with someone else’s… -
The Just Society
Two and a half years ago, Saving The Church Part II set off a systematic decoupling of faith and politics. This is my attempt at reintegration. There is in the Bible a distinction between morality and justice: Morality is rightness before God; justice is rightness before other men. To a certain degree they are not separate: justice is attendant to morality. Loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind entails that we will love our neighbors as ourselves. Yet justice can exist on its own:… -
Nature, Axioms, and Sanctification
Let us first define ‘nature’ as our active axiom – that is, the ultimate good towards which we strive in acting. There are then two types of nature: -Absolute Referent: The unconditional striving towards the good of something external. -Relative Referent: The striving towards the good of the self. The relative referent is the defining [...]