Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference by Pierre Manent and Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law by Melissa Moschella
In partnership with the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce the publication of two new titles in the Catholic Ideas for a Secular World series: Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing by Melissa Moschella, professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, and Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference: Pascal’s Defense of the Christian Proposition by Pierre Manent, professor emeritus of political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law provides a rigorous but accessible overview of the new natural law account of ethics and political philosophy. “Moschella has written the clearest, most readable exposition and defense of contemporary natural law theory yet to appear,” says Robert P. George, author of Conscience and Its Enemies.
Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference is the first English translation of Pierre Manent’s penetrating engagement with the seventeenth century polymath and apologist for the Christian faith, Blaise Pascal. “Manent ventures boldly into the centuries-long conversation on the interpretation of Pascal,” declares Ralph C. Hancock, author of Calvin and the Foundation of Modern Politics. “The fruit of his effort is a sustained and multifaceted reflection that is clearly an epochal contribution to Pascal studies and gift of the highest value to all those who ponder what it means to be human.”
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