Advanced Worldview Analysis - Lesson 20
Legal Positivism
Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discusses legal positivism.

Legal Positivism
The Christian Worldview and the Philosophy of Law
Part 2
Presented by guest lecturer Alejandro Moreno-Morrison
I. Consequentialist Approaches to Law (Pragmatism/Utilitarianism)
II. Legal Positivism
Discussion of the content of a worldview and the criteria used to evaluate worldviews.
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Discussion of liberalism and conservatism, and statism and anti-statism.
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Political systems fall along a continuum between the extremes of anarchism and totalitarianism.
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People favoring statism support extensive government involvement in education and social programs.
% Complete From a biblical point of view, statism is evil.
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Discussion of justice on an individual and corporate level.
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An economy based on capitalism has much less government involvement than an economy based on socialism.
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Interventionism is a capitalistic economic system in which government gets involved to allow free exchange within a framework of laws.
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Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism.
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Two basic concepts of economics are limited resources and the choices we make that reflect our values.
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Marxism is an economic system based on the idea of a class struggle with the goal of a classless society.
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Article from The Free Market
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The Bible and Socialism, Moral Defense of Capitalism
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We are responsible to be a good steward of the wealth God gives us to manage.
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Some of the root causes of poverty are government, social and religious systems.
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Liberation theology is an ideology promoted by people trained in Marxism. True liberation theology delivers people from tyranny, poverty and sin.
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Christians ought to care about poverty and oppression. People who hold differing economic and social theories propose very different approaches and solutions to these problems.
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Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discussing the inflation of rights.
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Guest Lecturer, Alejandro Moreno-Morrison discusses legal positivism.
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A balanced approach toward environmentalism is needed because it can be a serious threat to individual liberty.
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Discussion of how people work in a capitalistic system to address environmental concerns.
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The public school system in the United States has fostered functional illiteracy, cultural illiteracy, and moral/spiritual illiteracy.
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Discussion of the pros and cons of setting up a voucher system to fund the education system.
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These lectures were given at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida during the spring of 2002.