The Line Through the Heart
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The Line Through the Heart

Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Line Through the Heart

Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction

About this book

Why do we demand happiness on terms that make happiness impossible? And what can we do about it? Acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski addresses these questions in the brilliantly persuasive book The Line Through the Heart, finding the answers in the natural law. The journey of exploration takes us through politics, religion, ethics, law, philosophy, and more, with Budziszewski as expert guide. While investigating the natural law and its implications, Budziszewski boldly confronts a wide range of contemporary issues, offering a newly integrated view of abortion, evolution, euthanasia, capital punishment, runaway courts, and the ersatz state religion built in the name of religious toleration. Written in Budziszewski's usual crystalline style, The Line Through the Heart shows that natural law is a matter of concern not merely to scholars but to everyone, for it touches how each of us lives, and how all of us live together. His profound examination of this subject helps us make sense of why habits that run against our nature have become second nature, and why our world seems to be going mad.

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Information

Publisher
Regnery Gateway
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781610170031
eBook ISBN
9781684516285
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: Natural Law as Fact, as Theory, and as Sign of Contradiction
  7. Chapter 2: The Second Tablet Project
  8. Chapter 3: Nature Illuminated
  9. Chapter 4: The Natural, the Connatural, and the Unnatural
  10. Chapter 5: Accept No Imitations: Naturalism vs. Natural Law
  11. Chapter 6: Thou Shalt Not Kill… Whom? The Meaning of the Person
  12. Chapter 7: Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice
  13. Chapter 8: Constitution vs. Constitutionalism
  14. Chapter 9: Constitutional Metaphysics
  15. Chapter 10: The Illiberal Liberal Religion
  16. Appendix: A Note on Natural Law Theories
  17. Afterword: The Architecture of Christian Citizenship: Two Stories with Basement and Mezzanine
  18. Credits, Acknowledgments, Confessions
  19. About the Author
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Copyright