[lbo-talk] papal logic

[farmelantj at juno.com]

That reads like John Locke.  Was Leo XIII
ripping off Locke, or was Locke ripping
off the scholastics?

Jim F.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Subject: [lbo-talk] papal logic
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:08:31 -0400

Michael Yates mentions the encyclical Rerum Novarum in his Chavez  
review. What delightful reasoning. A sample:

<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum_en.html 

 >

Here, again, we have further proof that private ownership is in  
accordance with the law of nature. Truly, that which is required for  
the preservation of life, and for life's well-being, is produced in  
great abundance from the soil, but not until man has brought it into  
cultivation and expended upon it his solicitude and skill. Now, when  
man thus turns the activity of his mind and the strength of his body  
toward procuring the fruits of nature, by such act he makes his own  
that portion of nature's field which he cultivates - that portion on  
which he leaves, as it were, the impress of his personality; and it  
cannot but be just that he should possess that portion as his very  
own, and have a right to hold it without any one being justified in  
violating that right. 

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