Life Matters

Commissioner Johnston has previously laid out the foundation for a just society as emanating from the principles of natural law. The value of individual human lives is recognized in natural law as the predicate for a just society and just laws. As America’s Founders said, “To ensure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” In this episode Johnston explains the current climate in the battle of ideas which rages against the idea of a right to life for innocent individuals.  The current climate even rages against the use of natural law principles in creating society’s laws. The greatest, single fountainhead for this antithetical approach to the basis of our laws is best summarized in the philosophy of Hegel.  Hegelian Progressivism, which swept through the academic world of the 19th century, quickly began to fulfill its asserted “destiny” by seizing governments in the 20th century. Essential to Hegelian thought is the pseudo-spiritual idea that history itself gives spiritual purpose and direction to