St. Augustine’s Analysis of Emperor Obama and the Somali Pirate »
By Robert Higgs | Friday April 17, 2009 at 12:13 PM PDT | 1 Comment
The U.S. Navy, it appears, will be directed to take more vigorous action against pirates off the coast of Somalia. “We are resolved to halt the rise of piracy in that region,” Emperor Obama said. Moral philosophers must busy themselves in answering the question: Is this action just? For classical authors, justice consisted of “giving to each man what is...
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