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Journal of Markets & Morality, Volume 9, Number 2
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Features articles by David VanDrunen, Andrew Schein, Carl J. Schramm, Roland E. Kidwell and Linda A. Kidwell, Karl Farmer, and Jeanette Delery and Walter Block. The scholia features key selections from Johannes Althusius' (1557-1638) Dicaeologicae, a semi...

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Is it Hot In Here? What Should Christians Think About Global Warming?

Dr. Richards explores the biblical foundations for our stewardship over the environment and its importance in the debate on Global Warming. He also discusses the mainstream views on Global Warming and answers four of the main questions concerning global climate change:

  • Is the earth warming?
  • Are we causing it?
  • If the earth is warming and we are causing it, is that bad?
  • Would the advised policies make any difference?

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From the Journal of Markets & Morality

The Claim for Secularization as a Contemporary Utopia by Jan Klos

The article focuses on the chasm that modern philosophy has wrought in human nature, thus giving rise to various dichotomies—intellect–morality, religion–science, and faith–reason. A belief has grown that these dichotomies are permanent and nothing can bridge them. Today, some people claim that economic activity may succeed regardless of moral considerations. No wonder then that we are facing conflicts, clashes, and dishonesty. Generally, we fall prey to a utopia.

Such was also the state of affairs in the nineteenth century. Its thinkers acquired the heritage of modernity against which they (Acton, Bastiat, Newman) had to stand up, but, instead of growing desperate, they resorted to an integral concept of the human person and went beyond modernity. Like Newman, they resolved to place intellect and morality, faith and reason, and religion and science “under one roof.”

In the Liberal Tradition

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)“Sob as instituições realmente livres, o próprio governo não é nada mais que uma concessão de poderes para o benefício de proteção e associação\... A essência da liberdade está no poder máximo de controlar, embora cabível ao conjunto da nação. Seu modelo é manifestado pela responsabilidade dos agentes públicos.”

Bureaucracy is undoubtedly the weapon and sign of a despotic government, inasmuch as it gives whatever government it serves, despotic power.
~ Lord Acton
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