The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic ConsciousnessUniversity of Missouri Press, 1999 - 235 Seiten This volume explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of personal liberty and free government and provides an analysis of the crisis of civic consciousness endangering both. |
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Seite xi
... justice in political regimes is a common possession of all human societies at least potentially, or forever reserved for a fortunate few; and of whether these universal aspirations can be better understood, and may even be more likely ...
... justice in political regimes is a common possession of all human societies at least potentially, or forever reserved for a fortunate few; and of whether these universal aspirations can be better understood, and may even be more likely ...
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... justice and lord chancellor of England, and in another essay on higher law. In essays more directly on the American founding, that singular alliance of philosophers, statesmen, and evangelists is explored as the force fostering ...
... justice and lord chancellor of England, and in another essay on higher law. In essays more directly on the American founding, that singular alliance of philosophers, statesmen, and evangelists is explored as the force fostering ...
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... renewal of human beings' open quest for freedom under justice forms the persuasive gist of the volume, a hope to be nurtured through every means at our disposal. Acknowledgments S OME OF THE ESSAYS included herein have been Preface xiii.
... renewal of human beings' open quest for freedom under justice forms the persuasive gist of the volume, a hope to be nurtured through every means at our disposal. Acknowledgments S OME OF THE ESSAYS included herein have been Preface xiii.
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... justice and goodness in men and their institutions is an insight that breaks the crust of party dogma and dissolves the hold of even the most repressive state on its most abject victims — such as the zeks of the labor camps , those ...
... justice and goodness in men and their institutions is an insight that breaks the crust of party dogma and dissolves the hold of even the most repressive state on its most abject victims — such as the zeks of the labor camps , those ...
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... justice among these lawyers. This is, of course, not a observation about personal or moral shortcomings but about professional attitudes. Missing seemed to be a sense of the advocacy of liberty and justice of the kind palpable in the ...
... justice among these lawyers. This is, of course, not a observation about personal or moral shortcomings but about professional attitudes. Missing seemed to be a sense of the advocacy of liberty and justice of the kind palpable in the ...
Inhalt
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Religious Liberty and Religion in the American Founding | 65 |
Sir John Fortescue as Political Philosopher | 95 |
Nihilism and Resistance | 121 |
Eric Voegelin a Conservative? | 139 |
Notes | 171 |
Index | 221 |
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Seite 52 - It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Seite 51 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest...
Seite 93 - I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all.
Seite 51 - Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Seite 99 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Seite 87 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Seite 51 - With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Seite 51 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.