Natural Law And The U.S. Constitution: A Thomistic Introduction I Professor Joshua Hochschild

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.6	As Peter mentioned in the introduction, the advertised title for this talk is, does nature
0:35.6	make laws? And then there was a subtitle, I think, something like an introduction to the natural law tradition.
0:43.3	As I wrote this, I thought that maybe it deserved a slightly different title.
0:49.3	It's still an accurate title, but a potentially alternative title is Providence, the nature of law, and the
0:55.8	to mystic natural law tradition. This will be about 45 minutes. It's a prepared lecture,
1:02.5	but I look forward to staying after and hearing question and answer. I assume we have time for that.
1:09.9	As I was preparing this lecture, I was surprised and encouraged by a coincidence
1:14.6	of history. 30 years ago, exactly 30 years ago, on November 10, 1993, Russell Kirk gave a lecture
1:25.6	at the University of Notre Dame Law School entitled
1:28.8	Natural Law and the Constitution of the United States.
1:33.9	I had read the lecture before, but rereading it and then noticing the date felt like a wink.
1:40.8	In God's Providence, Kirk was doing me a favor.
1:45.0	Kirk's lecture, which was published subsequently in the Notre Dame Law Review and is available online,
1:51.0	very well addresses the question that I was asked to speak on tonight, and does so better and more directly than I am capable.
1:59.0	When I received an invitation to speak on the Thomistic natural law tradition, it came with
2:04.3	further specification, a motivating context for reflection on natural law.
2:10.7	This campus is admirably attuned to theological and political questions, including about
2:16.1	the nation's founding and its relation to Christian ideas,
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