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“To be ruled is not contrary to Liberty”

02 Thursday Jun 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Hierarchy, Human Dignity, Liberty, St. Robert Bellarmine

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To be ruled by a superior is not contrary however to human liberty, dignity and equality. Only the despot offends thus . . . even in the state of innocence there would have been political subjection, there would have been a difference of sexes, faculties and power; therefore an order of precedence and subjection. Among the angels there is a hierarchy of order with precedence and succession; why not among men? Therefore it is not contrary to liberty, nor humiliating to the dignity of man to be ruled by his legitimate superiors. . . . There is a difference between political subjection and servile subjection.

-St. Robert Bellarmine, De Laicis

S. Mauritius

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