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Is There a Natural Law?
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Item Title Is There a Natural Law?
Guest Niemeyer, Gerhart
Guest McInerny, Ralph
Guest Solomon, David
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJanuary 06, 1984
Description

This topic, it is safe to say, has not often been addressed on television talk shows. But guests and host use enough concrete illustrations to give even the non-philosophically minded a very rewarding hour. WFB: "Nuremberg really was an appeal to natural law in a way." GN: "Some say so; I don't. In my mind, Nuremberg was an unreasonable thing, simply for the reason that the Soviets sat among the judges." WFB: "What if they had not?" GN: "Even then I think it would have been very much tainted by the fact that the victors sat over the vanquished." ... RM: "There are certain actions which in and of themselves are wrong--they would thwart the purposes of human nature--such as murder and adultery and lying.... These kinds of actions are excluded. But when you have the inclusions ... the positive natural-law precepts--be brave, be temperate, be just--they don't strike one as constraining prescriptions. They open up all kinds of possibilities of variety and diversity."

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Place RecordedSouth Bend, Indiana, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
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Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0586
Record Number80040.824
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