Event
08/06/2021
17:30 - 18:30
Online
Politics and Law: The Limits of Bounded Rationality
The seventh lecture in The D'Arcy Lectures 2021 series, delivered by Revd Dr Patrick Riordan, Senior Fellow in Political Philosophy and Catholic Social Thought.
The political handling of conflict presupposes its own standards. These are less precise than the technical languages of law and economics, and there is a persistent danger that the political realm be colonized by the standards of legality or economic efficiency. This lecture explores the tension, relying on Aquinas’s account of law, and drawing on his analogical discussion of the many types of law to underline the importance of preserving a distinct realm of political reasonableness as a requirement of the common good.