NATURAL LAW THEORY IS VERY MUCH ALIVE AND WELL.(Main)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | August 17, 1991 | Copyright

Byline: Peter Steinfels New York Times

One of the more curious displays of cultural illiteracy has been the consternation and bafflement created by Judge Clarence Thomas' expressions of esteem for "natural law."

For some of the critics of the nominee to the Supreme Court, it was as though the man had let slip a reference to torture by thumbscrews. Others squinted as though Thomas had disclosed an obscure and probably sinister belief in alchemy.

These are strange reactions to a philosophical theory stretching back to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, ...

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