Ep. 40 Ed Feser's Roman Catholic theory of the state. #Iraq War #Anarchism #Rothbard

The mindcrime liberty show discusses Ed Feser’s “statism”  with regards to the functioning of the Roman Catholic  Church  as well as war.  Do traditional Roman Catholics have the best theory to defend  the state in both domestic as well as foreign affairs? Would the traditional historical catholic church even recognize the state which Ed Feser is defending, ie the US state (a protestant founded liberal Lockean  republic), not the Holy Roman Empire led by the papacy on the chair of St Peter.  Are the Lockean principles which many ground rights or property on in it themselves baseless?  What are the strengths and weaknesses of Ed Feser's natural law approach to defending the state as well as private property? Ed Feser in various parts of his writings includes a truck load of provisos to attack  property but still admittingly defends private property itself saying its natural if not outright good.  Same thing with the state.  At what point do the provisos and emergencies make private property functionally “public” property controlled by a state which leads to all the problems identified by anarchists, minarchists and the lockean liberals.  Why isn’t Ed Feser a socialist?

When it comes to foreign affairs Ed Feser may do a fairly effective job at saying that Roman Catholic Christianity isn’t compatible with anarchism (or at least Roman Catholics can’t be anarchists …..we will leave the Protestant Christian part out of it for the purposes of this conversation) but nonetheless is Ed Feser crying wolf when it comes to his advocacy of the Iraq War.  Why did Ed Feser lend support to such a ruinous and pointless war even if in theory the Catholic just war theory fought by a legitimate actor is justified by Ed Feser’s natural law Catholicism.  Didn't in the long run the pacifists and "Rothbardian Catholics" who he says more or less are   a contradiction in terms get vindicated by the actual outcome of the war which he defended?  

 

Ed Feser on the Holy Roman Empire.

https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2020/12/what-was-holy-roman-empire.html