Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions)

by Robert P. George

Any healthy society, any decent society, will rest on three pillars. The first is respect for the human person—the individual human being and his dignity. Where this pillar is in place, the formal and informal institutions of society, and the beliefs and practices of the people, will be such that every member of the human family, irrespective not only of race, sex, or ethnicity but also of age, size, stage of development, or condition of dependency, is treated as a person—that is, as a subject bearing profound, inherent, and equal worth and dignity.

opposed not only industrialism but even the very idea of a commercial society, fearing that commercial economies inevitably produce consumerist and acquisitive materialist attitudes that corrode the foundations of decency.

Art can elevate and ennoble. It can also degrade and even corrupt.

We don’t want to make our rights subject to voting, they say.