This is absolutely the direction we should be going, but what do we actually see today? We see technocrats hijacking the legislative process for totalitarian ends, using a veneer of morality for the purposes of control. Any semblance of personal concern is quickly and easily exposed as a front for a myopic, one dimensional grab for power and commercial gain. "Lex non possit nocere" is a foreign, nonsensical proposition for the technocrats, and the law becomes whatever lever is required at whatever moment is advantageous, to secure the grid of control so desired.
False acknowledgements are made to a notion of natural laws - in the rhetoric of personal values, freedoms and rights. But all the while eroding those very personal values, freedoms and rights.
If the Creator is the author of natural laws, then His solution is to have His law written on men's hearts - they, then being led from within, under authority, in a kingdom, work out their collective lives in relationship with the Lawmaker. But this seems not to be the direction society is choosing to go (maybe it's thought archaic, primitive, unscientific, lacking the insights of modernity).
Gosh, I'd better stop - I'm sounding so pessimistic!
"This leads to ignoring what is primary and essential. Already with the present state of knowledge of the laws of nature, it seems more appropriate to reverse this state of affairs by valuing less these varieties of cultural actualizations and by trying to find a foothold in phenomena occurring universally and permanently, in the laws of nature, which are becoming better known. This task will become increasingly feasible as knowledge of these laws becomes deeper and more subtle. In this connection, the gap that still separates natural and spiritual cognition and renders our moral cognition largely irrational will gradually close".
This is absolutely the direction we should be going, but what do we actually see today? We see technocrats hijacking the legislative process for totalitarian ends, using a veneer of morality for the purposes of control. Any semblance of personal concern is quickly and easily exposed as a front for a myopic, one dimensional grab for power and commercial gain. "Lex non possit nocere" is a foreign, nonsensical proposition for the technocrats, and the law becomes whatever lever is required at whatever moment is advantageous, to secure the grid of control so desired.
False acknowledgements are made to a notion of natural laws - in the rhetoric of personal values, freedoms and rights. But all the while eroding those very personal values, freedoms and rights.
If the Creator is the author of natural laws, then His solution is to have His law written on men's hearts - they, then being led from within, under authority, in a kingdom, work out their collective lives in relationship with the Lawmaker. But this seems not to be the direction society is choosing to go (maybe it's thought archaic, primitive, unscientific, lacking the insights of modernity).
Gosh, I'd better stop - I'm sounding so pessimistic!
Such a hopeful message:
"This leads to ignoring what is primary and essential. Already with the present state of knowledge of the laws of nature, it seems more appropriate to reverse this state of affairs by valuing less these varieties of cultural actualizations and by trying to find a foothold in phenomena occurring universally and permanently, in the laws of nature, which are becoming better known. This task will become increasingly feasible as knowledge of these laws becomes deeper and more subtle. In this connection, the gap that still separates natural and spiritual cognition and renders our moral cognition largely irrational will gradually close".