The danger in eliminating natural law theory is complete obligation to obey the state, leading to the Kantian-Hegelian German tradition of idealistic domination by the state, which carries dangers as great as or greater than the anarchic tendency toward judging and rejecting positive law.
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“what you get when you give up on the ability to judge positive civic law on the basis of some kind of universal moral obligation accessible to all rational people what you get is a complete obligation to obey the state”
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Great Minds - Aquinas' Summa Theologica: The Thomist Synthesis and its Political and Social Content— Michael SugrueCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:34:04 PM
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