#411: Pagans' Knowledge of the Good

Do they have any, according to Oliver O'Donovan?

One of the great questions of Christian ethics is whether and to what extent pagans are able to discern the good.

Superficially, the answer seems rather obvious: there has never been a society that has failed to achieve justice in some measure, after all. In fact, the idea of an entirely vicious society is practically unintelligible: the alienation that …