A Lenten Article
An article worth reading, especially for those who seek some measure of liberty from sin and self-imposed corrosion during this season of fast. It is by that erudite, witty and penetrating thinker, David B Hart. From the nipple of Janet Jackson he deduces the Platonic nature of the Good, and rejects the notion of liberty as merely power without limit, power divorced from any consideration of what is truly good for human nature, and toward what end human nature is oriented. He calls this, and correctly, the merely libertarian view of liberty.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
