Natural Law Moment
Natural Law Moment
Podcast Description
The legal world is a tumultuous one, and to comprehend it, we must get to the heart of the matter. We must endeavor to understand the principles of judgment upon which the decisions that shape our personal and public lives are based.
Before we can ask "what ought to be?" we must ask "what is?"
To do this, we need the Natural Law.
Profs. Hadley Arkes & Gerry Bradley are the preeminent Natural Law scholars of our day. And with over 80 years of experience between them, not only will the Natural Law Moment podcast place you in the room with them, but it will also teach you to think like them.
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This podcast explores crucial themes such as Natural Law, parental rights, and the Pro-Life movement, with episodes examining landmark cases like U.S. v. Skrmetti and the implications of the Dobbs decision, as well as discussions on the moral frameworks surrounding contemporary legal issues.

The legal world is a tumultuous one, and to comprehend it, we must get to the heart of the matter. We must endeavor to understand the principles of judgment upon which the decisions that shape our personal and public lives are based.
Before we can ask “what ought to be?” we must ask “what is?”
To do this, we need the Natural Law.
Profs. Hadley Arkes & Gerry Bradley are the preeminent Natural Law scholars of our day. And with over 80 years of experience between them, not only will the Natural Law Moment podcast place you in the room with them, but it will also teach you to think like them.
Join Natural Law Moment for the next installment of a look back into the lives of our co-hosts Profs. Arkes and Bradley before they became the storied teachers they would become.
This latest episode focuses on Hadley Arkes's intellectual formation at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s as a graduate student of the legendary philosopher and political scientiest Leo Strauss. Our co-hosts explore the ingredients that made the University of Chicago of that era such a vibrant place, a place where Arkes would never have wanted to leave ”to study abroad.” Arkes recounts classroom interactions between Strauss and his students as well as the philosophic developments that would come to be associated with a revival of conservative thought on the American Founders and Lincoln. And don't miss what Arkes says that Strauss might say to our leaders of today.

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