The line through the heart
Subtitle: natural law as fact, theory, and sign of contradiction
By: J. Budziszewski.
Publisher: ISI Books; Regnery Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781935191179
Subjects: Natural law; Natural law -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Religion and law -- United States
Description: "In The Line Through the Heart, popular philosopher J. Budziszewski threads a path between these various abysses. Among his questions are how the knowledge of good is related to the knowledge of God, how things that seem to run against the grain of human nature can become "second nature", and whether natural law can be reconciled with Darwinian evolution. Turning to politics, he takes up such topics as who counts as a human person, whether human dignity is compatible with capital punishment, what courts have made of the United States Constitution, and how an ersatz state religion can be built in the name of Toleration. Written in Budziszewski's usual crystalline style The Line Through the Heart makes the natural law and its implications clear for both scholars and general readers."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I: Moral law.  Natural law as fact, as theory, and as sign of contradiction; title: The second tablet project; title: Nature illuminated; title: The natural, the connatural, and the unnatural; title: Accept no imitations : naturalism vs. natural law; title: PART II: Political law. Thou shalt not kill... whom? The meaning of the person; title: Capital punishment : the case for justice; title: Constitution vs. constitutionalism; title: Constitutional metaphysics; title: The illiberal liberal religion.