Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State by Robert K. Vischer
English | December 14th, 2009 | ASIN: B004K6M8NW, ISBN: 0521130700, 0521113776 | 326 Pages | EPUB | 0.92 MB
Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the individual in any contest against group authority, losing sight of the fact that a vibrant liberty of conscience requires a vibrant marketplace of morally distinct groups.