There seems to be terms in sociology and jurisprudence that are not given face-value. That what you see is not what you get, and what you get may be ill-defined.
Now some of the Ill-defined terms have been corrected; however, with regards ro totalitarianism, terms were dated in the 1930s were ill-conceived in their works and Straussian in validity (wholesale lies), or manufactured, partial, critical lies.
Coupled with a realism endowed with heavy machinery for world war or churning out bodies in ethnocleansing genocide; that all 20th Century thinking became suspect.
What the Professors and Fathers of Catholic Church were insisting on was Natural Law as it “descends from the heavens” and gets picked up off the ground by humanity, dusted off, examined in the light of day, maintaining pragmatic wholesomeness.
Natural law has a long history that can be read on, to get an accurate appraisal and a confirmation that Natural Law is tmely, to-date.
That U.S. Constitution has a truth In it, an inalienable rights that comes from Divine values and an universal ceiling of sanity and health. That adequate reason can be established. And it is a Natural Law document.
That we recognize human irrationality in behavioral economics, but Do Not relegate reason, or reasoning, or specifically sound reasoning to the heap.
No Post-Modern cure, that perverts sound reasoning and then claims victory with Straussian lies coupled with heavy, mechanized Realism, for Post-Straussian laws betraying Truth and enacting totalitarianism–will due.
A culmination, and by-pass, is in order. For post-Enlightenment .
Opportunity here for urgent need to a wiser enlightenment, utilizing wisdom literature developed in the late 20th Century and this century, as well, termed in application, wisdom intelligence. (This wisdom that grabs your attention, does not put you to sleep!)
Or, knowing from evaluating, what to keep, what to rid ourselves of, what to sideline, what is important, what is urgent, when to take sideline material and act on it, when to try something different, totally different, or completely out of the box–when to try something: “what are you out of your mind??!’
Because Einstein said, “you can’t get the problem solved in the standard mndset you created it in!” Yes, now for the thing you’ve been rejecting ,for re-evaluatiom, and to envision the next paradigm! Divergence.
Abraham Boulder.
The Realism and Hope Foundation 