George tackles one of the most vexing issues dividing Americans today. A wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America's leading public intellectuals In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. He argues that the "Age of Faith" of the Medieval period and the "Age of Reason" of the European Enlightenments have been followed by a modern "Age of Feeling," in which people derive their beliefs not from faith or reason—or faith and reason—but from emotion, which becomes the central source of truth. And so, many have embraced a fierce moral absolutism on the basis of beliefs that are the products of nothing more than subjective inclinations and experiences.