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Available
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Description
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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Publication
Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing Company (1999), 162 pages
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ISBN
9781890626167
Contents
Fallen city (apologian) --
The revenge of conscience --
The illusion of moral neutrality --
Politics of virtues, government of knaves --
The problem with communitarianism --
The problem with liberalism --
The problem with conservatism --
Why we kill the weak --
The fallen city (reprise and charge).
The revenge of conscience --
The illusion of moral neutrality --
Politics of virtues, government of knaves --
The problem with communitarianism --
The problem with liberalism --
The problem with conservatism --
Why we kill the weak --
The fallen city (reprise and charge).
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