Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism by George, Robert P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page American Ideals and Institutions Series Title Page Dedication Contents Foreword to the Paperback Edition

by Mary Ann Glendon

Introduction Part I: Fundamentals

1 Common Principles, Common Foes 2 The Limits of Constitutional Limits 3 Private Acts, Public Interests 4 Liberalism, Liberation, and the Liberal Arts 5 Judicial Despotism

Lessons from the “Great Emancipator”

6 Some Hard Questions about Affirmative Action

Part II: Morality and the Public Square

8 Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity 9 Why Moral Truths Matter 10 Two Concepts of Liberty … and Conscience 11 Religious Liberty

A Fundamental Human Right

12 What Marriage Is—and What It Isn’t 13 The Myth of a “Grand Bargain” on Marriage 14 Is Polyamory Next? 15 Transgenderism, “Marriage Equality,” and Liberalism’s Tragic Error

Part III: Life and Death

17 Conscience and Its Enemies 18 When Life Begins 19 Embryo Ethics

What Science Tells Us, What Justice Demands of Us

20 The Personal and the Political

Some Liberal Fallacies

21 A Right to Life Denied or a Right to Die Honored? 22 The “Relics of Barbarism,” Then and Now

Part IV: Good Guys and … Not-So-Good Guys

23 Harry Blackmun

Improbable Liberal Icon

24 Andrew Sullivan

A Walking Contradiction

25 Bernard Nathanson

A Life Transformed by Truth

26 He Threw It All Away

On the Greatness of Richard John Neuhaus

27 A Practical Philosopher in Every Way

G. E. M. Anscombe

28 The Achievement of John Finnis 29 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese A Life Well Lived 30 Eugene Genovese

Truth Teller

31 The Irreplaceable Amy Kass 32 Antonin Scalia

An American Originalist

Notes Acknowledgments Index Copyright Page 7 Immigration and American Exceptionalism 16 God and Gettysburg