George Wallace a newly elected governor of Alabama, taking a positivist view, addressed his state in his inaugural address in 1963 and made it clear that he saw the law as strictly a social phenomenon, and implied in his speech that the social acceptance of law was the authoritative power needed to meet the common place for law to be followed. ...
God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...
