Public Interest
Apr. 18, 2001
Pondering an Amoral Foundation
As we go farther beyond our Judeo-Christian roots to a secular and secularized view of morality, we seem to be losing our grip on once-stable institutions which no longer have any foundation except law. And law without a moral anchor is simply the will of the lawmaker backed up with the force of the police and of the courts. When Oliver Wendell Holmes once was asked what law meant, he simply said those commands which courts will enforce.
As we go farther beyond our Judeo-Christian roots to a secular and secularized view of morality, we seem to be losing our grip on once-stable institutions which no longer have any foundation except law. And law without a moral anchor is simply the will of the lawmaker backed up with the force of the...
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