Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions) (Volume 1) - Hardcover

Robert P George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1610170709 ISBN 13: 9781610170703

Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2013

Synopsis

Collection of previously published essays on cultural and legal issues relating to the marriage debate, abortion and embryonic stem cell research, political liberty, and religious freedom--

About this title

About the Author:

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He has received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, and the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He is a member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Professor George holds degrees from Swarthmore, Harvard, and Oxford, as well as many honorary degrees. A regular guest on television and radio and a frequent contributor to popular and scholarly publications, he is the author of The Clash of Orthodoxies and coauthor of What Is Marriage? and Embryo: A Defense of Human Life.

Review:

Puts [George’s] highly burnished philosophical and constitutional learning on full display. . . . George is exceptionally nimble when he spars with conventional contemporary political and social thought. . . . [George] speaks for a sizable number of conscientious objectors to America’s ruling liberal secularism.”
New York Times Book Review

There’s not a dull or insignificant page in the whole volume. . . . I don’t think we get better, or more consequential, commentary on the modern crisis than Mr. George affords us.”
Washington Times

Brilliant theoretical argument . . . Should be required reading in colleges across the nation.” Commentary

George’s claim to that title [ This country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker’] is made abundantly clear in this collection of incisive, accessible essays, which seek to expose and confront the dogmas of liberal secularism while also directing and deepening modern conservatism. . . . Intended for a wide audience, the book deserves one.” Claremont Review of Books

A primer in civics and a guide to addressing the cultural  Leviathan . . . George’s incomparable expertise will give even the most seasoned reader new insights.” Catholic World Report

Praise for Robert P. George

A fascinating mind at work: brilliant, of course, and learned, but, above all, tenacious. Robert George is the bulldog of American intellectuals grasping hold of a topic and refusing to let it go until he’s gotten to the bone.” Weekly Standard

This country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker.” New York Times Magazine

One of the nation’s most respected legal theorists . . . Even people who profoundly disagree with some of his conclusions [respect] his sheer brilliance, the analytic power of his arguments, the range of his knowledge . . . [and] a deeply principled conviction, a profound and enduring integrity.” Elena Kagan, Supreme Court justice

One of the most incisive legal and moral thinkers working today.” First Things

One of contemporary conservatism’s intellectual pinups.” George F. Will

George has done a great service in demonstrating that traditional morality still has an authoritative role to play in modern life, and in showing how a person of faith can enter the public square fearlessly, unashamedly, intelligently, and, above all, reasonably.” National Review

An indispensable man.” Touchstone

Professor George has helped strengthen our nation’s system of ordered liberty by exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political theory.” President George W. Bush, in awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1610170709
• ISBN 13: 9781610170703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256