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Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience

Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience

by Ben Peterson | Sep 4, 2022

By Ben Peterson At least since Sophocles’ dramatic telling of the bitter conflict between Antigone and Creon over the burial of Antigone’s traitorous brother, the tension between higher law and the benefits of a public order that promotes law abidingness has been...

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ubookman The University Bookman @ubookman ·
27 May

Here, Kirk references with approval MacIntryre's argument from "After Virtue" on the need for "communities of character."

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At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?" https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/04/russell-kirk-civilization-without-religion.html
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At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?"

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