Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism pdf

罗伯特 P. 乔治是麦考密克法学教授和詹姆斯麦迪逊美国理想与制度项目主任。 他曾担任美国国际宗教自由委员会 (USCIRF) 主席，在此之前担任总统生物伦理委员会主席和美国民权委员会总统任命人。 他还曾担任美国 联合国教科文组织世界科学知识与技术伦理委员会（COMEST）成员。 他是美国最高法院的前司法研究员，并获得了 Tom C. Clark 大法官奖。 他毕业于斯沃斯莫尔学院，拥有法学博士学位。 和 M.T.S. 哈佛大学学位和 D.Phil.、B.C.L.、D.C.L. 和 D.Litt 学位。 来自牛津大学。 他曾是哈佛法学院的客座教授，也是外交关系委员会的成员。

Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism pdf 罗伯特·彼得·乔治

“Many in elite circles yield to the temptation to believe that anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot or a religious fundamentalist. Reason and science, they confidently believe, are on their side. With this book, I aim to expose the emptiness of that belief.” —From the introduction Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer. Here, at last, is the counterattack. Showcasing the talents that have made him one of America’s most acclaimed and influential thinkers, Robert P. George explodes the myth that the secular elite represents the voice of reason. In fact, George shows, it is on the elite side of the cultural divide where the prevailing views frequently are nothing but 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: abortion and infanticide, same-sex marriage, 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 elevates our national debates. It sets forth powerful arguments that secular liberals are unaccustomed to hearing—and that embattled defenders of traditional morality so often fail to marshal. It also lays out the principles and arguments for rebuilding a moral order.