I Judge No One

This philosophical reading of the four gospels explores the life of Jesus and why he was put to death for a political crime despite saying "I judge no one." Author David Lloyd Dusenbury examines the clash over the significance of Jesus's sayings and death between pagan and Christian philosophers in the first centuries AD, as well as the opinions of modern philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. With original perspectives on this enigmatic figure, Dusenbury suggests that Jesus's double claim against pervasive human judgements and the human experience of love led to his political death and revealed that our highest desires are beyond the political realm.