Volume 9, 2004
Gary Glenn
Pages 21-28
Words That Sound Alike But Have Different Meanings
Robert Krayriak's Christian Faith and Modern Democracy imprecisely diagnoses a problem in modern rights doctrines. Kraynak conflates the modern notion of autonomous rights with natural rights as traditionally understood in Christian thought. It is still possible to defend the Christian-Aristotelian version of rights rather than let autonomy-based rights lead even Christians to licentiousness or despotism.