Happy Easter! In reflecting on Christ’s passion and resurrection this past week, I got to thinking about one aspect of it in particular: Jesus’ restoration of justice. If we had to make a list, who would be the greatest restorers of reason and common sense in history?
Here is my own (very) idiosyncratic list- mainly of thinkers, but also artists and actors on the world stage who have helped my own common sense, certainty, belief in natural law, judgment, etc. I’d be interested to hear who other people might include in their lists in the comments.
Jesus Christ
Aristotle
St. Thomas Aquinas
Socrates
Elizabeth Anscombe
Ralph McInerny
Abraham Lincoln
Saul Kripke
T.S. Eliot
Homer
Pascal
Walker Percy
G.K. Chesterton
Antonin Scalia
Imre Lakatos
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
William Shakespeare
Leo Strauss
Alasdair MacIntyre
Michael Novak
Leon Kass
Charles De Koninck
Anton Chekov
Cicero
Thomas Reid
Plutarch
Cato the Elder
Chris Wolfe (the Elder)
Harry Jaffa
Leo XXIII
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Edmund Burke
Gilbert Ryle
Jordan Peterson
Alexis de Tocqueville
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Nagel
Forrest McDonald
Ed Feser
Clarence Thomas
Johnny Cash
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ronald Reagan
James Q Wilson
Winston Churchill
Whitacre Chambers
Merle Haggard
Happy Easter- and may our restoration continue!
Not that I can even pretend to be familiar with all of the listed thinkers and in some cases statesmen, but might I suggest adding at least Alvaro D’Ors, Frederick Wilhelmsen and Dietrich von Hildebrand?
So many names come to mind, but let me go right to the most criminally ignored one: Chantal Delsol.