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The author presents an interactive guide that helps students examine different world views and myths that they may encounter at college, giving them the tools they need to meet the challenges ahead.

Based on the author's "Ask Theophilus" column on the Focus on the Family college webzine, this book helps students achieve personal insight about the most controversial and confusing topics of our time.

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This interdisciplinary commentary makes Thomas Aquinas's classical treatise on the meaning of life and the nature of human happiness luminously clear to scholars, students, and general readers. Budziszewski offers a line-by-line explanation of the text, complete with examples, applications to life, and ancillary discussions.

It's Time to Start Asking the Right Questions About Happiness The West is facing a happiness crisis. Today, less than a quarter of American adults rate themselves as very happy-a record low. False views of happiness abound, and the explosion in "happiness studies" has done little to dispel them. Why is true happiness so elusive, and why is it so hard to define? In How and How Not to Be Happy, internationally renowned philosopher and happiness ...

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This interdisciplinary commentary makes Thomas Aquinas's classical treatise on the meaning of life and the nature of human happiness luminously clear to scholars, students, and general readers. Budziszewski offers a line-by-line explanation of the text, complete with examples, applications to life, and ancillary discussions.

This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' writings on virtue ethics steers the reader through the text's challenging arguments and classical rhetorical figures. The author provides commentary on the most essential texts, illuminating the work of one of the greatest virtue theorists in history for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

Describing the political effects of Original Sin, Professor Budziszewski shows how man's suppression of his knowledge of right and wrong corrupts his conscience and accelerates social collapse. The depraved conscience grasps at the illusion of "moral neutrality, " the absurd notion that men live together without a shared understanding of how things are. After evaluating the political devices, including the American Constitution, by which men h...

This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.

The author presents an interactive guide that helps students examine different world views and myths that they may encounter at college, giving them the tools they need to meet the challenges ahead.

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Philosopher J. Budziszewski asks 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, and how an ersatz state religion can be built in the na...

In this new revised edition of his groundbreaking work, Professor J. Budziszewski questions the modern assumption that moral truths are unknowable. With clear and logical arguments he rehabilitates the natural law tradition and restores confidence in a moral code based upon human nature.What We Can't Not Know explains the rational foundation of what we all really know to be right and wrong and shows how that foundation has been kicked out from...

Through our society is obsessed with sex, we no longer understand even the common sense of sexuality. Acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski remedies this problem in his wise, gracefully written book about the nature, meaning, and mysteries of sexuality. On the Meaning of Sex corrects the most prevalent errors about sex - particularly those of the sexual revolution.