Oct 31, 2023
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“If freedom is based merely on the will’s ability to do what the person wants provided he does not hurt anyone, this includes generally all outside standards and influence. In this view, freedom would basically be defined as freedom to do what one wants. The conscience would be the only norm for determining such a freedom and there would be no further standard on which such freedom could be judged. Freedom would be license. Authority in any context would be reduced either to merely a guide to form freedom or a contest of wills to see whose freedom could overpower the other. In society, this basically means that the conscience has rights but no duties. Law is reduced to a struggle of wills.
Yet, Cardinal Newman, one of the most eloquent spokesmen for the liberty of conscience, is clear that “Conscience has rights because it has duties.” That duty would be to the objective truth with its origin in human nature. This truth in turn in regarding prudence and justice is established in some cases by the lawful prescriptions of authority.”
- Fr. Brian Mullady OP, Christian Social Order
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