Making Men Moral - Civil Liberties and Public Morality

Zusatztext George is a sophisticated controversialist; his arguments are always clear, sophisticated and highly interesting. Making Men Moral deserves the attention of moral, political, and legal theories. Informationen zum Autor Robert P. George, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University Klappentext Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here Robert P. George defends the traditional justification of morals legislation against criticisms advanced by leading liberal theorists. Heargues that such legislation can play a legitimate role in maintaining a moral environment conducive to virtue and inhospitable to at least some forms of vice. Among the liberal critics of morals legislation whose views George considers are Ronald Dworkin! Jeremy Waldron! David A.J. Richards! andJoseph Raz. He also considers the influential modern justification for morals legislation offered by Patrick Devlin as an alternative to the traditional approach. George closes with a sketch of a "pluralistic perfectionist" theory of civil liberties and public morality! showing that it is fullycompatible with a defense of morals legislation. Making Men Moral will interest legal scholars and political theorists as well as theologians and philosophers focusing on questions of social justice and political morality. Zusammenfassung In this text, the author defends the proposition that "moral laws" can play a legitimate - if subsidiary - role in preserving the "moral ecology" of the cultural environment in which people live their lives.

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• Authors: Robert P. George, Robert P. (Associate Professor of Politics George, George Robert P.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.1995
• EAN: 9780198260240
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826024-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / General, Systems of law, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law