Quote and Book by Claude-Frédéric Bastiat

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Quote below taken from a book I highly recommend entitled THE LAW by Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850). Free e-book and e-collection of Bastiat’s work are courtesy of Mises Institute…

“We hold from God the gift that, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life—physical, intellectual, and moral life.

But life cannot support itself. He who has bestowed it, has entrusted us with the care of supporting it, of developing it, and of perfecting it. To that end, He has provided us with a collection of wonderful faculties; He has plunged us into the midst of a variety of elements. It is by the application of our faculties to these elements that the phenomena of assimilation and of appropriation, by which life pursues the circle that has been assigned to it are realized.

Existence, faculties, assimilation—in other words, personality, liberty, property—this is man.

It is of these three things that it may be said, apart from all demagogic subtlety, that they are anterior and superior to all human legislation.

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.”

Vox Humana Unius Vox Humana Alterius Non

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So it follows (to reiterate), one’s human voice certainly is not the same as God’s voice or in Latin vox humana vox dei non, nor one’s human voice the same as another’s human voice or also in Latin vox humana unius vox humana alterius non. The finiteness of humanity, nay the precise position ergo finiteness of each and every individual’s space (x,y,z) at any given moment in time (t), preempts observably, logically, consistently any conjured justification to presume to think, speak then act on behalf of God or another individual....

Vox Humana Vox Dei Non

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As logically noted by Aristotle (384-322 BC) per the section Posterior Analytics of his work Organon…

"Now since the required ground of our knowledge---i.e. of our conviction---of a fact is the possession of such a syllogism... and the ground of the syllogism is the facts constituting its premises, we must not only know the primary premises---some if not all---beforehand, but know them better than the conclusion... So since the primary premises are the cause of our knowledge---i.e. of our conviction---it follows that we know them better---that is, are more convinced of them---than their consequences, precisely our knowledge of the latter is the effect of our knowledge of the premises."

Mere conclusions (i.e. outcomes) are the priorities of the 21st century mind, often to the exclusion of the laborious, arduous yet necessary process(es) of premises, observations, evidences, tests, determinations, propositions, syllogisms (logic), consistencies, ethics and more. Consequently, the adult mind remains entirely adolescent, far too deficient to exercise any meaningful analysis particularly complex as well regularly simplistic even commonly routine....

To Prefer Even Propend Is To Reason

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Every member of the specie human constantly prefers or not prefers, consistently propends or not propends. That is to say, each individual prefers or propends “this” else prefers or propends “that” then prefers or propends “that” else prefers or propends “this” and so on. Preference even Propensity are neither an elected preoccupations nor chosen activities, rather continuous states of human existence. To contend the self-evident, to reason is human (see Proem & Poem Nos. 22-24, 33, 34) is to redundantly confirm to prefer even propend is to reason else something instinctive....

John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Parts 6-9 (1-5 last week)

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By such trust upon a nontransparent government established by humanity therefore fallibility, foolishly trusted indeed is coercion or force executed by humanity therefore executed by fallibility...

John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Parts 1-5 (6-9 next week)

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All politics are discussions then implementations of "force" disguised by expedient and/or benevolent terms...

Two Propositions on Humanity and Polity

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It is not that any one person may be corrupt, nor one person more corrupt than another, rather every person therefore Human Nature corrupt... Thus government power of all forms corruptive...

Burden of Responsibility and Risk

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Moral teachings theological, spiritual, philosophical, educational consequently social as well political cannot achieve moderate character without human activity’s burden of responsibility and risk...