Integralism is unjust, but it captures some important truths.
James Dominic Rooney
Government has a legitimate role in preserving peace, but it cannot make men virtuous.
Was Derek Parfit a sterling moral exemplar, or just a socially awkward oddball?
Underneath all their discussion of the common good, Catholic integralists have a repugnant view of political authority.
Colin Bird wants to rescue human dignity from the ashes of the Judeo-Christian tradition. He ends up stripping the concept of all intrinsic value.
Natural law thinkers are not trapped in feudal medieval politics, and neither are Confucians slaves to a despotic past.
Habi Zhang is wrong to suggest that Confucianism inevitably leads to despotism. The Chinese can build a free society.
Some Christian thinkers argue that liberal norms are preventing us from attaining the common good. Illiberalism would be worse.
James Dominic Rooney is an assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and a Dominican friar.