- Title Pages
- Other Books by George Anastaplo
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 . On Understanding the Others -
2 . Life and Not-Life in Thucydides’ Funeral Oration -
3 . Death and Resurrection in Euripides’ Bacchae -
4 . Resurrection and Death in Everyman -
5 . John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Eden -
6 . Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence -
7 . Time and the Constitution -
8 . Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project -
9 . Public Health and Private Consciences -
10 . The Flag Salute Cases (1940, 1943) -
11 . Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription -
12 . Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War -
13 . Do All Somehow Aim at the Good? -
1 . Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Elusiveness of the Good -
2 . Unconventional Religious Duties and the Good Life -
3 . Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and the Prevention of Conception -
4 . Roe v. Wade (1973) and the Law of Abortion -
5 Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and the Persistence of the Abortion Issue -
6 . Capital Punishment and the United States Supreme Court -
7 . Capital Punishment Reconsidered -
8 Nancy Cruzan and “The Right to Die” -
9 . Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Assisted Suicide -
10 The Legislation of Morality and the Problem of Pain -
11 . Evolution and the Law -
12 . Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address -
13 . The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time -
Appendix A The Declaration of Independence (1776) -
Appendix B The United States Constitution (1787) -
Appendix C The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791–1992) -
Appendix D Pericles, The Funeral Address (431 B.C.E.) -
Appendix E On Death and Dying: Ancient, Christian, and Modern -
Appendix F Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775) -
Appendix G Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863) -
Appendix H George Anastaplo, on the Ultron and the Foundations of Things (1974) -
Appendix I Life, Death, and the Systematic Perversions of Law (2000) -
Appendix J Cases and Other Materials Drawn On - [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Index
- About the Author
. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time
. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time
- Chapter:
- (p.199) 13. The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time
- Source:
- Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution
- Author(s):
George Anastaplo
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
This chapter recommends a proper caution, particularly in the form of defensive measures, is encouraged. It observes that people tend to be enough aware of our mortality to take precautions. It refers the author's 1971 treatise, The Constitutionalist, a detailed examination of principles vital to the American regime. It notes that the sources and applications of these principles are examined, and those principles, especially with respect to the First Amendment guarantee of “freedom of speech [and] of the press,” seemed to be undermined then because of desperate Cold War concerns in recent decades. It further notes that the apprehensiveness exhibited at times was hardly edifying. It reasons that this is not to deny the ferociousness of Stalinist regimes, in Russia and elsewhere, but there were better and worse ways of responding in this country that tended to make sensible measures less likely.
Keywords: caution, defensive measures, mortality, The Constitutionalist, American regime, First Amendment, freedom of speech, Cold War, Stalinist regimes, Russia
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- Title Pages
- Other Books by George Anastaplo
- Dedication
- Preface
-
1 . On Understanding the Others -
2 . Life and Not-Life in Thucydides’ Funeral Oration -
3 . Death and Resurrection in Euripides’ Bacchae -
4 . Resurrection and Death in Everyman -
5 . John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Eden -
6 . Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence -
7 . Time and the Constitution -
8 . Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project -
9 . Public Health and Private Consciences -
10 . The Flag Salute Cases (1940, 1943) -
11 . Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription -
12 . Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War -
13 . Do All Somehow Aim at the Good? -
1 . Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Elusiveness of the Good -
2 . Unconventional Religious Duties and the Good Life -
3 . Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and the Prevention of Conception -
4 . Roe v. Wade (1973) and the Law of Abortion -
5 Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and the Persistence of the Abortion Issue -
6 . Capital Punishment and the United States Supreme Court -
7 . Capital Punishment Reconsidered -
8 Nancy Cruzan and “The Right to Die” -
9 . Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Assisted Suicide -
10 The Legislation of Morality and the Problem of Pain -
11 . Evolution and the Law -
12 . Life and Death in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address -
13 . The Unseemly Fearfulness of Our Time -
Appendix A The Declaration of Independence (1776) -
Appendix B The United States Constitution (1787) -
Appendix C The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791–1992) -
Appendix D Pericles, The Funeral Address (431 B.C.E.) -
Appendix E On Death and Dying: Ancient, Christian, and Modern -
Appendix F Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775) -
Appendix G Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863) -
Appendix H George Anastaplo, on the Ultron and the Foundations of Things (1974) -
Appendix I Life, Death, and the Systematic Perversions of Law (2000) -
Appendix J Cases and Other Materials Drawn On - [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Index
- About the Author
