What We Can't Not Know A Guide

by Budziszewski, J.

• ISBN13: 9781586174811
• ISBN10: 1586174819
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Ignatius Press

Summary

In This New revised edition of his groundbreaking work, Professor J. Budziszewski challenges the modern assumption that moral truth is obscure or even unattainable. With clear, logical arguments he rehabilitates the natural law tradition, restoring confidence in a moral code based on human nature.

Author Biography

J. Budziszewski is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his several books are The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man and The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
A New Phase of an Old Tradition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition
Whom This Book Is For	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction
The Moral Common Ground	p. 3
The Lost World
Things We Can't Not Know	p. 19
What It Is That We Can't Not Know	p. 29
Could We Get By Knowing Less?	p. 54
Explaining the Lost World
The First and Second Witnesses	p. 83
The Third and Fourth Witnesses	p. 93
Some Objections	p. 116
How the Lost World was Lost
Denial	p. 149
Eclipse	p. 173
Recovering the Lost World
The Public Relations of Moral Wrong	p. 199
The Public Relations of Moral Right	p. 214
Possible Futures	p. 230
Appendices
The Decalogue as a Summary of the Natural Law	p. 237
The Noahide Commandments as a Summary of the Natural Law	p. 241
Isaiah, David, and Paul on the Natural Law	p. 243
An Example of Enmity to Nature: The Redefinition of Pregnancy as a Disease	p. 250
Notes	p. 253
Index	p. 269
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