Conscience and Its Enemies

Conscience and Its Enemies

Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

Robert P. George

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Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer. Here, at last, is the counterattack.

This revised and updated paperback edition of the acclaimed Conscience and Its Enemies showcases the talents that have made Robert P. George one of America's most influential thinkers. Here George explodes the myth that the secular elite represents the voice of reason. In fact, it is on the elite side of the cultural divide where the prevailing views are little more than articles of faith.

Conscience and Its Enemies reveals the bankruptcy of these too often smugly held orthodoxies while presenting powerfully reasoned arguments for classical virtues.In defending what James Madison called the "sacred rights of conscience"—rights for which government shows frightening contempt—George grapples with today's most controversial issues: same-sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, genetic manipulation, euthanasia and assisted suicide, religion in politics, judicial activism, and more. His brilliantly argued essays rely not on theological claims or religious authority but on established scientific facts and a philosophical tradition that extends back to Plato and Aristotle.

Conscience and Its Enemies sets forth powerful arguments that secular liberals are unaccustomed to hearing—and that embattled defenders of traditional morality so often fail to marshal.

Genres

Conservatism & LiberalismPolitical IdeologiesPolitical ScienceAll Other NonfictionReligion, Politics & StateNationalAmerican Government

Pages336

Released2023

LanguageEnglish

PublisherSkyhorse Publishing

ISBN9781684516070

SellerSimon & Schuster

About the author(s)

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. He has received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civil Achievement, and trhe Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He chairs the U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom and has served on the President's Council on Bioethics. Professor George holds degrees from Swarthmore, Harvard, and Oxford.

Reviews

"This country's most influential conservative Christian thinker." —New York Times Magazine"As a critic of liberalism, George is devastating. Generally attributing honest motives to his opponents, he nevertheless ruthlessly exposes [their] sophistries."—National 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." —Washington Times"Brilliant . . . Should be required reading." —Commentary"Puts George's highly burnished philosophical and constitutional learning on full display . . . George speaks for a sizable number of conscientious objectors to America's ruling liberal secularism." —New York Times Book Review

"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 dire

"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 conv