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Money: Source of Evil or Benefit to Society?
What I would like to investigate is the biblical idea of the love of money being the root of evil, and not money itself. I was led to think about this idea due to a seminar regarding utopia where many of my peers seemed very opposed to the idea of money in a hypothetical utopia.…
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St. Augustine and Government
Saint Augustine was a devout Christian philosopher who lived more or less during the final stages of the decline of the Western Roman Empire (4th and 5th century A.D.). Though he does count as an ancient philosopher, he is more of a bridge between the older, classical philosophers and medieval philosophers than anything else. I…
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Should Property Serve the Common Good?
For this post, I would like to share an interesting take on the institution of property I read recently. Thomas Aquinas, one of Western philosophy’s most influential writers, put forth the essential idea that divine law and natural law aim at the common good. Property depends on said law to exist; therefore property must also…