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. --from publisher description.

First edition originally published: Dallas, Texas : Spence Publishing Company, Ã2003.

The lost world. Things we can't not know -- What it is that we can't not know -- Could we get by knowing less? -- Explaining the lost world. The first and second witnesses -- The third and fourth witnesses -- Some objections -- How the lost world was lost. Denial -- Eclipse -- Recovering the lost world. The public relations of moral wrong -- The public relations of moral right -- Possible futures.