The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man - Softcover

Budziszewski, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608997529 ISBN 13: 9781608997527

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2010

Synopsis

Describing the political effects of Original Sin, Professor Budziszewski shows how man's suppression of his knowledge of right and wrong corrupts his conscience and accelerates social collapse. The depraved conscience grasps at the illusion of "moral neutrality" the absurd notion that men live together without a shared understanding of how things are. After evaluating the political devices, including the American Constitution, by which men have tried in the past to work around the effects of Original Sin, Dr. Budziszewski elucidates the pitfalls of contemporary communitarianism, liberalism, and conservatism.

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About the Author

J. Budziszewski (PhD Yale, 1981) is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, where he has taught since 1981. A specialist on the natural law, the foundational moral principles "written on the heart," he is especially interested in the suppression of moral knowledge -- what happens when we tell ourselves that we don't know what we really do. The author of ten scholarly books including What We Can't Not Know: A Guide and The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction, he has also written three books for Christian young people.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608997529
• ISBN 13: 9781608997527
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184