𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙

"In this true liberty consists: being free to live according to right reason." Leo XIII

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@SohrabAhmari Definitely a preferred title of the Dominicans, along with Queen of Preachers, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@CulturamVitae @FeserEdward https://t.co/JNtKW6YEZ3

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@iustumpretium @FeserEdward If I grew my family’s estate to twice it’s original size, I could be assured that my grandchildren would not reap the rewards of that expansion. That’s the effect of the Jubilee.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

My question for @FeserEdward, or anyone else, is how can we best confront the problem of severe and harmful inequalities through inherited wealth or poverty.

The Jubilee laws (while not an inheritance tax) do seem aimed at limiting the potentially harmful effects of inheritance.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

1/10 Annett’s position has nothing to do with either natural law or Catholic moral theology & in fact is contrary to both. His view of possession is essentially liberal individualist, and his view about the use of property is essentially socialist. He misses the middle ground

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@patsw @FeserEdward Whether a family is to work the field or own the field can be a matter of inheritance.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@TalentEvaluator @FeserEdward Lions are natural. Also, notoriously harmful.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@iustumpretium @FeserEdward If I grew my family’s estate to twice it’s original size, I could be assured that my grandchildren would not reap the rewards of that expansion. That’s the effect of the Jubilee.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

I only realized just now that today is the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s LIBERTAS.

Providentially, some of my reflections on the meaning of true liberty were published today by @rev_suroeste!

“The False Liberty of Liberalism”
👇👇👇

[Revista Suroeste @rev_suroeste]

Un día como hoy en 1888, el Vaticano publica la Encíclica Libertas praestantissimum de León XIII sobre la libertad humana. En ella, el Papa reflexiona sobre la libertad en distintos ámbitos, el liberalismo y la doctrina católica ante esta doctrina política, social y económica.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@_river_run @FeserEdward Lol the only coded language here is you outing yourself by accusing me of coded language.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@_river_run @FeserEdward Take the example of the Jubilee laws. When one family faces hard times and needs to sell property to another family this inequality is a serious hindrance to the flourishing of future generations of the poorer family who are now workers on the land and not owners.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@_river_run @FeserEdward The economic vision articulated, for instance, by Leo XIII, entails that men should not ideally be dependent on others for wages but have at least some share in ownership.

However, persistent divergence in intergenerational wealth/poverty makes this virtually impossible.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@_river_run @FeserEdward I didn’t say that inequalities are per se harmful. That’s why I qualified it by referring to harmful inequalities as a *type* of inequality.

Nevertheless it seems clear that extreme inequalities, especially unearned ones, are contrary to the common good.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@ByzCat 👀

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@ByzCat @StMichael71 Yeah I look forward to reading it. You have my email.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@StMichael71 Rather the point is that liberals and Pelagians proceed from the same faulty understanding of freedom as an underdetermined arbitrary power to choose either good or evil.

In this way, both metaphysical and political libertarians spring from the same root.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@StMichael71 I think you’ve missed the point of comparison Pope Leo was making between liberalism and Pelagianism.

Of course it is not the case that State ought to have control over individuals like God does. No one is arguing for that—at least not any Catholic integralists.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@doozy_j123 Well then your argument is pretty circular. It’s not that predestination is a source of oppression, rather your claim is that every oppressive society, definitionally, believes in some kind of “predestination.”

This is a very uninteresting claim.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

Those who embrace liberalism will always squirm in the face of predestination.

And those who reject the classical views on the primacy of grace will always be inclined toward liberalism.

These ideas are deeply connected.

Leo XIII said it clearly: Liberalism is neo-Pelagianism.

[Taylor Patrick O'Neill @thomaesplendor]

God knows contingency in things. Divine knowledge itself is not (and cannot be) contingent. The divine intellect is never wrong, and it does not learn. The divine will is never inefficacious or frustrated. God is first in all things.

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@doozy_j123 Are secular/atheistic societies ever oppressive?

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@doozy_j123 But God does favor some and excludes others. (And that’s not what double predestination means.)

And if it was, then what’s the explanation for oppression outside or before societies that believed in divine predestination?

[𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚘𝚙 @AnthonyMariaOP]

@RevDrOlds You can read Leo for yourself, though it is significantly longer than 280 characters. https://t.co/HKqQfyYCrJ