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Preview: Professor Samuel Gregg Explains the Presumed Friction Between New Natural Law Theory and Hume-Derived Liberalism in the Modern Age. More

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

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Preview: Professor Samuel Gregg Explains the Presumed Friction Between New Natural Law Theory and Hume-Derived Liberalism in the Modern Age. More
1920 ST. PETER'S BASILICA

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This is John Batchel, a conversation with the philosopher and economist and professor Samuel Greg about natural law and liberalism, as the professor

0:41.5

indicates, often assumed to be at odds. However, he explains that David Hume, the source of

0:49.4

liberalism skepticism, is also at the same time a sharp thinker to be admired.

0:56.2

And that, well, listen to the professor.

0:59.5

This is a conversation about natural law, the new natural law,

1:04.5

dealing with God patriotism and liberalism.

1:07.6

More of this tonight.

1:09.5

So liberalism and natural law philosophy have often been

1:13.4

portrayed as being intention. And that's partly because liberalism is in many respects a product

1:20.5

of the various Enlightenments. And to a certain extent, in some circles, not all, but in some

1:26.8

circles, Enlightenment thinking but in some circles,

1:31.9

in light of thinking involved a type of rejection of natural law philosophy.

1:34.8

We see this most prominently with someone like David Hume.

1:39.7

I think David Hume is actually a very insightful, political and economic thinker,

1:45.5

but he's very much the person, I think, who developed the idea of philosophical skepticism.

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