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The provocative title of this wonderful collection of essays should not obscure the absolute centrality of love in Michael Novak's philosophical outlook. For while romantic infatuation evaporates as hormones retreat, true love requires that 'we spend a lifetime being instructed in its secrets.' We humans were chosen, as 'God wished to show what he is made of, to let us look behind the veil at the Love that moves the sun and all the stars.' In God's Image--which is Love itself--were we created. For Novak, love is 'to will the good of the other as other'--certainly not as what benefits us, nor as we imagine it to be: no one is to be treated as a means, only as an end. Novak's elegant prose and simple yet profound insights lead naturally to a defense of individual freedom and democratic capitalism that is fully backed by empirical facts but is ultimately based upon deeply moral principles which cannot fail to inspire the receptive reader. --Juliana Geran Pilon, Ph.D., Director, Center for Culture and Security, The Institute of World Politics

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Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is a member of the National Endowment for Democracy board. He is the author of over two dozen books and numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, and National Review Online. He is the winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

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