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It was an important town in the medieval period, as the site of the Fort of Maryborough, a fort built by English settlers in the 16th century during the Plantation of Queen's County. Portlaoise is fringed by the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west and north-west and the Great Heath of Maryborough to the east. It is notable for its architecture ...
Maryborough East or East Maryborough [1] (Irish: Port Laoise Thoir [2]) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called Queen's County or County Leix), Ireland. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Etymology
Maryborough Gaol was built c. 1789 in a Neoclassical style. It is a seven-bay, two-storey building over a concealed basement with a three-bay central breakfront, built of limestone and Portland stone. [2] It was renovated in the 1990s, and opened in 1999 as Dunamaise Arts Centre, named for the nearby Rock of Dunamase, a medieval fortress. [3]
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Grisez defended the idea of metaphysical free choice and proposed a natural law theory of practical reasoning and moral judgment which, although broadly Thomistic, departs from Aquinas on significant points. [2] Grisez was Professor of Christian Ethics at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD [3] from 1979 to his retirement in 2009.
The Ethics of Liberty is a 1982 book by American philosopher and economist Murray N. Rothbard, [1] in which the author expounds a libertarian political position. [2] Rothbard's argument is based on a form of natural law ethics, [ 3 ] and makes a case for anarcho-capitalism .
Natural law [1] (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of a set of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles, which are discoverable through reason.
Natural law is a fact in that it is real, we know it, and we cannot change it. It is a theory because we can reflect on our pre-theoretical knowledge of the natural law and attempt to develop a systematic account of it. Finally, the natural law is a scandal, it angers us because it confronts us. [13]