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

Budziszewski, J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890626163 ISBN 13: 9781890626167

Publisher: Spence Pub, 1999

Synopsis

A depraved conscience -- not merely ignorant but willfully corrupt -- is the most destructive force in political life. In an incisive reflection on politics and original sin, a relentlessly perceptive political philosopher demonstrates that modern ideologies all deny the fallen nature that is source of the three great problems of public life: we do wrong, our thinking about the wrong we do is clouded, and our efforts to rectify that wrong are themselves deformed by sin. Blinded to this truth about ourselves, we habitually suppress our conscience until it is corrupted, and, taking its revenge, leads us to cultural calamity.

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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: Spence Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890626163
• ISBN 13: 9781890626167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 162