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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. He received his PhD from Boston College and has been teaching at Marquette University since 1978. His published books include The Rise of Modern Judicial Review (1986), Judicial Activism (1991), How to Read the Constitution (1996), Liberalism at the Crossroads (1994), and Natural Law and Public Reason (2000). His edited volumes include That Eminent Tribunal (2004), The Family, Civil Society, and the State (1998), Homosexuality and American Public Life (1999), and Same-Sex Matters (2000). Dr Wolfe has published articles in First Things, book reviews, and various opinion pieces. He is the founder and President of the American Public Philosophy Institute. Klappentext Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory! but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Zusammenfassung Natural Law Liberalism argues that liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory but mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism tends to put traditional morality and religion off-limits in political discourse and to unreasonably exalt individual autonomy! but nothing in the liberal tradition demands this. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Contemporary Liberalism: 1. Contemporary liberal exclusionism I: John Rawls's antiperfectionist liberalism; 2. Contemporary liberal exclusionism II: Rawls, Macedo, and 'Neutral' Liberal Public Reason; 3. Contemporary liberal exclusionism III: Gutmann and Thompson on 'Reciprocity'; 4. Contemporary liberalism and autonomy I: Ronald Dworkin on Paternalism; 5. Contemporary liberalism and autonomy II: Joseph Raz on trust and citizenship; 6. 'Offensive liberalism': Macedo and 'liberal education'; Part II. Liberalism and Natural Law: 7. Understanding liberalism: a broader vision; 8. Understanding natural law; 9. Liberalism and natural law; 10. 'Cashing out' natural law liberalism: the case of religious liberty; 11. A natural law public philosophy....
