Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Sigh. And the once-respectable Prof. Feser throws another few shovels full of dirt on the casket in which his reputation as a rational thinker rests.
Not quite sure what the issue is here. Doesn’t virtue help any leader (hereditary or elected) avoid tyranny and don’t corruption and avarice push him that way? That advice is neither 13th nor 21st century: it’s classical and Biblical.
It’s ahistoric in the way Ed uses it as an attempted jab at Trump. Compared to most of the rulers of the time of Thomas Aquinas, Trump is a pussycat and about as far from being a tyrant as it is possible to be.
Feser and Eric Sammons can have a celebrity death match over who is more against getting rid of the mullahs and their Revolutionary Guard.