Hadley Arkes: Mere Natural Law

Socrates in the City

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Is there a “law” hidden beneath the written law? Hadley Arkes, professor of law for nearly fifty years, and host Eric Metaxas sit down to discuss how the framers of the Constitution regarded the “self-evident” truths of the Natural Law as foundational.

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0:00.0	Thank you, Hadley, for agreeing to participate in this.
0:07.1	It's going to be a hard-hitting journalistic interview.
0:08.9	Are you ready?
0:10.3	I just came in to read the meter.
0:11.9	They asked me to stay around for programs.
0:13.5	Look, that's good enough.
0:15.6	Okay.
0:15.9	Okay, go ahead.
0:17.1	As we will talk about in your book, in discussing your book,
0:21.0	mere natural law, originalism and the anchoring truths of the Constitution.
0:26.7	And in this book, oddly enough, when you talk about coming in to read the meter,
0:31.4	because since you're a joker, nonetheless, there's something to that.
0:36.5	Because in the book, part of the thesis of the book
0:40.0	is the idea that people who come in to read the meter,
0:46.2	you say the plowman.
0:48.1	Oh, that is so good.
0:49.1	That is so good.
0:49.9	Quote unquote, normal, you know, unlettered people,
0:53.8	nonetheless have enough common sense to make moral decisions.
1:00.9	And it's an extraordinary thesis.
1:04.2	So why don't we start there with my asking you
1:08.2	to lay out briefly the thesis of the book Mere Natural Law and why it's titled
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