https://firstthings.com/who-is-the-good-samaritan/ Who Is the Good Samaritan? PIERRE MANENT DECEMBER 16, 2020 SHARE ARTICLE D espite the collapse or erasure of Christian references in Europe, contemporary language has retained a certain number of expressions that everyone still understands, at least to some extent. I believe there is no one who doesn’t know (or at least intuit) that “the Good Samaritan” is someone who voluntarily aids someone who needs help, with this additional note: that he agrees to depart from his path, or to leave what he was doing, in order to care for someone unfortunate, when nothing obliges him to do so. It is therefore quite natural that Pope Francis gives the parable of the Good Samaritan a place of honor in his recent encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, Fratelli Tutti . nHere, therefore, is the text from St. Luke’s Gospel that opens the second chapter of the encyclical, a chapter entitled “A stranger on the road”: Just th...
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA1: Other authors, such as Villey, on the other hand, claim that the Spanish betrayed the teaching of St Thomas by attributing subjective rights to the American Indians, in fact assuming, despite their intentions, the doctrine of the theologi moderni or juniors who were heirs to the Ockhamist tradition.120 The thesis I'm going to defend is that our notion of the law has the defect of being itself a foreign body, and is the product of the infiltration into law of a Theology, that this infiltration has unfortunately taken place in modern times and that the Spanish scholasticism is largely responsible for this happening121 .
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