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*Image: The Scent-seller by Pietro Longhi [Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice]
By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, Nov. 9, 2023
Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. …
Americans after the Civil War had been well trained in a very simple ethical inference. Not everyone accepted it. Not everyone felt its force consistently. Yes, there was a lot of hypocrisy and contrary social pressure. “Prejudice” still held sway. But still the skeleton of the logical inference was in place. All human beings a created equal. All are endowed with the right to life.
Suppose, then, there is a “being” who does not look like us – he has dark skin. But we become clear that he is a human being. Therefore, he shares these rights. He cannot be killed on our whim. He cannot be enslaved. Whatever else happens, he must be left as a free man. …
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