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Natural law begins by understanding and internalizing what we don’t know. We will never know these things, and that fact itself is part of the law we live under.

Why are we here? Plain and simple, we just don’t know. Explanations abound. Some are religious, some are scientific, some are poetic. Still, no one knows.

We don’t know the origin of life. Some say God. Some say that life began when dead chemicals miraculously combined in such a way that life generated itself. The theories are many. The facts are few. We just don’t know.

Starting With What We Don’t Know

By James Quillian – Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

I teach natural law from a simple place: we start by admitting what we don’t know.
Not as a slogan, not as a trick, but as something we really internalize. We live with it. We let it sit in our bones.

A lot of people speak with great authority. They sound sure. They hold court.
They tell you what life is, what death is, what the universe is doing and why.
Many of them know, deep down, that they don’t actually know. But they talk like they do anyway.

Knowing that we don’t know is a kind of prophylactic. It protects us from being compromised by those who pretend to have all the answers. Once you accept that some things are truly unknown, you stop being easy to herd.

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Natural Law Begins With What We Don’t Know

Natural law begins by understanding and internalizing what we don’t know. We will never know these things, and that fact itself is part of the law we live under.

Starting With What We Don’t Know

I teach natural law from a simple place: we start by admitting what we don’t know.
Not as a slogan, not as a trick, but as something we really internalize. We live with it. We let it sit in our bones.

Natural law begins by understanding and internalizing what we don’t know. We will never know these things, and that fact itself is part of the law we live under.

I teach natural law from a simple place: we start by admitting what we don’t know. Not as a slogan, not as a trick, but as something we really internalize. We live with it. We let it sit in our bones.

I teach natural law from a simple place: we start by admitting what we don’t know.
Not as a slogan, not as a trick, but as something we really internalize. We live with it. We let it sit in our bones.