Government Action and Oppressing the Poor
The writer of Proverbs warns us against the folly of keeping a common purse with immoral people.[1] This proverb can be applied to how we think about our government’s provision of various goods and services ranging from education to housing to healthcare. Indeed,...
On Limited Government
Moral action requires choice. How can we say that one action is virtuous and another immoral, if the person acting has no choice in the matter?
The Underlying Problem of Naturalism in the Study of Economics
The naturalist assumption that the only valid method of inquiry is the scientific method has generally succeeded in becoming the primary view among academics worldwide. However, when we really consider what is being said we should not be so quick to acquiesce to the...
Character Development in a World of Suffering
Suffering and hardship will end in heaven. For this reason, virtue and poverty cannot be linked. However, the poor are not virtuous simply because they are poor. As I discussed in a previous post, poverty arises for many reasons. In many cases it is the result of bad...