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The idea of basic human dignity was a later development rooted in a Christian framework that was for centuries the backbone of the Western tradition and has remained a central feature in modern morality.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
“Even if a group of people can agree on how to treat people in the moment, consensus can change at any moment. Today’s virtues can become tomorrow’s vices. Like a sand castle, the tenets of morality can be destroyed by the tide of public opinion.” — David Pernell
Philosophy for the previous several centuries had been primarily a classroom exercise. It had been about the pursuit of the good life—about truth and meaning—but for the student first and foremost. Almost all the philosophical schools—Cynic, Platonist, Aristotelian, Epicurean, even Stoicism—had tuned out the real world of social and political life.
Stephen Hanselman • Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Concern for Nominal Christians of Specific Types
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
legacy of second-nature civic association
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Points of Inquiry
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy
Greg S. Johnson • Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy (Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur)
"Rights and liberties, powers and opportunities, income and wealth."