Jeremy Beer on David Schindler

Philosopher of Love

Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity

CWR: Vatican II and Religious Freedom: Rupture or Authentic Development? by Carl E. Olson
The authors of a new book on “Dignitatis Humanae” argue that the Declaration grounds the right to religious freedom in the obligation to seek the truth, especially the truth about God

A Piece on David Schindler

Philosopher of Love by Jeremy Beer
David Schindler has a remedy for the religious right

For the orthodox Christian, is doing one’s public duty more or less reducible to voting for the most socially conservative Republican on the ballot—and then shutting up about whatever misgivings one might have? Surely not. Yet for many election cycles, this has been often implied by the self-appointed guardians of practicality and political realism. It is even increasingly heard from the pulpit.

The assumptions that lurk behind this idea are that when it comes to ordering public life, modern liberal democracy in its best sense has things basically right. America rightly understood is the highest exemplar of this kind of liberalism. And the Republican Party is our best reasonable hope for defending this liberalism’s political, economic, and cultural accomplishments from its enemies. To question these assumptions is to be naïve or—a favorite epithet—utopian.

Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God by David L. Schindler (via The Imaginative Conservative)

Related: America's Technological Ontology and the Gift of the Given (pdf)

ISI Lecture:

Economic Freedom and Moral Virtue: Does the Free Market Produce Captive Souls?
Doug Bandow
Former Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

David L. Schindler
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

4/1/2009

From ISI's Cicero's Podium: A Great Issues Debate Series.

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(You can also find the video for the lecture here, at least for now.)

David L. Schindler, The Dramatic Nature of Life: Liberal Societies and the Foundations of Human Dignity

Something to read when I do a study of "human dignity."