What We Can't Not Know

One of the more fruitful ideas to emerge in Western history is the concept of natural law. I'm not talking about the laws of physics and chemistry, but, rather, the fundamental moral truths that are, to some extent, knowable by everyone everywhere, at all times. C.S. Lewis gave examples of these truths, common to all the world's great religions, at the end of his book The Abolition of Man. The American Founders took the natural law for granted. Even the most strongly deistic, such as ...