A few days ago the magazine of my alma mater, Swarthmore College, arrived in the mail. In it, I noticed an article on one of the alumni most unrecognized by the college, Robert George. The article offered a surprisingly fair and accurate portrayal of George’s writings on new natural law. But there was one small problem: “Natural law’s antagonist is secular humanism, whose founder and namesake David Hume famously wrote . . .” For the record, humanism comes from human, a word used frequently for the species homo sapiens. No offense to David Hume.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 1:43 PM
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