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S. Adam Seagrave

S. Adam Seagrave is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law.

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Do Ideas Really Have Consequences?

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To view practical agreements between Aristotelian-Thomist foundationalists and contemporary anti-foundationalist liberals as “progress” is to fiddle while Rome burns.
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What Can a Modern Philosopher Teach Us About Natural Law?

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As a philosopher, Locke was both historically great and uniquely ambivalent. This combination provides extraordinarily fertile ground for uniting modern and pre-modern insights that seem opposed.
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Aristotelian-Thomism in the Modern World

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Our modern intellectual context is profoundly at odds with genuine Aristotelian-Thomism. If we want to infuse the public discourse with sound philosophy, we must soberly recognize the obstacles before us and confront them in the spirit of devotion to truth. The first of a two part series.
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The Layman and the Scientist: A Response to Miller

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The layman’s understanding of the world can’t be considered mere guesswork—it’s the necessary starting point for understanding reality.
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Evolution and the Eye Test: A Response to My Critics

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Darwin rejected a theory of knowledge that best accords with the common experience of the expert and the layman: a process of induction or intuition whereby sense impressions become memories, and memories become experience.
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Evolution and the Eye Test

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Darwin’s evolutionary theory rests on a problematic premise: Our senses don’t tell us the truth about nature.
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Abortion and Our “Moral Sense”

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When intellectual arguments against abortion fail to persuade, recourse must be had to images and strategies that awake what David Hume considered our “moral sense.”
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Civil Marriage: The View from a State of Nature

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Governments don’t legally recognize a certain type of relationship because they are suckers for romance; they do so because they are understandably afraid of the potentially destructive consequences of such romance.
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