{"id":16950,"date":"2016-06-27T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jh.southloophvac.com\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2016-06-27T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:27:00","slug":"symposium-thomisticum-paris-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/symposium-thomisticum-paris-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"“Enlightened” Philosophy in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What you see in the photo above and below is the Pantheon,\u00a0originally the church of\u00a0St. Genevieve<\/a>, the patroness of Paris. In the French Revolution, it was gutted and made into a temple of Reason, that is, a symbol of the new patroness of Paris, who rejected religion as superstition and envisioned humanity itself as the purpose of its existence – aided by science – and redefined as modern science. This helped France come out of the “Dark Ages” (a derogatory term given to it by the same enlightened people) into the freedom of being enlightened.<\/p>\n

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That is, until now.\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually…no, we didn’t really change anything physically of significance. But\u00a0an excellent affirmation of the continued contribution of Middle Ages (the non-derogatory term) was\u00a0given by Remi Brague in his keynote address for the Symposium Thomisticum: To Which Middles Ages? And How? <\/em>(I’m currently looking for a copy).<\/p>\n

On the 19th of June I travelled to Paris for the philosophy conference to present my recent\"\"<\/a> paper. The other presenters, including Remi Brague, Kevin Flannery and John Haldane, definitely gave me a lot to think about with their\u00a0presentations.<\/a><\/p>\n

I also am thankful for the feedback on a summary version of my \u00a0paper “Thomas and Custom: Discovering Justice Empirically.”<\/a>\u00a0It is an explanation for why customs, or habits shared by a\u00a0community, are a reasonable source for human laws and should not be easily changed (Summa Theologiae I.II.97.2-3). It is not claiming that what is right always has its source in\u00a0convention. Rather,\u00a0since humans make practical decisions from the natural law written in them and are also inclined toward virtue, and since\u00a0habit and habituation is a source of of virtue\u00a0– unnecessarily changing\u00a0those ‘silly’ habits which do not conflict with the natural law by means of statutory\u00a0law\u00a0is\u00a0unjust. Customs\u00a0may even already take on the force of human law, since the people who the legislator represents in a free society are the source of his authority.<\/p>\n

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