Truth Matters
A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division
1st Edition
Published on 21. January 2025
160 pages
979-8-88845-171-7 (ISBN)
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Two leading public intellectuals and dear friends?one progressive, one conservative?explore What is Truth? and Why Does Truth Matter?
In Truth Matters, Cornel West and Robert P. George address a range of social issues on which Americans today are bitterly divided. Their book models robust intellectual engagement and civil discourse as they explore vital questions surrounding the idea of truth and its foundational role in our lives. Along the way, they reflect on social conditions?such as respect for freedom of speech?that must be established and maintained if truth is to be seriously pursued. They also explore the virtues?such as intellectual humility and courage?that must be acquired and practiced if we frail, fallible, fallen human beings are to be determined truth seekers and bold truth speakers.
In Truth Matters, Cornel West and Robert P. George address a range of social issues on which Americans today are bitterly divided. Their book models robust intellectual engagement and civil discourse as they explore vital questions surrounding the idea of truth and its foundational role in our lives. Along the way, they reflect on social conditions?such as respect for freedom of speech?that must be established and maintained if truth is to be seriously pursued. They also explore the virtues?such as intellectual humility and courage?that must be acquired and practiced if we frail, fallible, fallen human beings are to be determined truth seekers and bold truth speakers.
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A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division
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Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as Chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the US Commission on Civil Rights and the US President's Council on Bioethics. He has also been the US member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the US Supreme Court, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of JD and MTS from Harvard University and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University. He is a recipient of the US Presidential Citizens Medal and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He is of counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
