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Zusatztext These essays reveal George to be an honourable! passionate! and intelligent defender of a moral and political theory which! both in its foundations and its understanding of law and policy! presents liberalism with an opponent it cannot ignore Informationen zum Autor Robert George is a Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University. He is the author and editor of many academic texts and journals and is a presidential appointee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Klappentext In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his critique of liberalism, and also goes beyond it to show how contemporary natural law theory provides a superior way of thinking about basic problems of justice and political morality. Students as well as scholars in law, political science, and philosophy will find George's arguments stimulating, challenging, and compelling. Zusammenfassung In Making Men Moral, his 1995 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his critique of liberalism, and also goes beyond it to show how contemporary natural law theory provides a superior way of thinking about basic problems of justice and political morality. It is written with the same combination of stylistic elegance and analytical rigour that distinguished his critical work. Not content merely to defend natural law from its cultural despisers; he deftly turns the tables and deploys the idea to mount a stunning attack on regnant liberal beliefs about such issues as abortion, sexuality, and the place of religion in public life. Students as well as scholars in law, political science, and philosophy will find George's arguments stimulating, challenging, and compelling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1 Theoretical Issues 1: A Defense of the New Natural Law Theory 2: Recent Criticism of Natural Law Theory 3: Natural Law and Human Nature 4: Does the Incommensurabiltiy Thesis Imperil Common Sense Moral Judgements? 5 Natural Law and Positive Law 6 Free Choice, Practical Reason and Fitness for the Rule of Law Part 2 Moral and Political Questions 7: Religious Liberty and Political Morality 8: Marriage and the Liberal Imagination 9: What Sex Can Be: Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Union 11: Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexual Acts 12: Natural Law and International Order Part 3 Dialectical Engagement 13: Moral Particularism, Thomism, and Traditions 14: Hu man Flourishing as a Criterion of Morality: A Critique of Percy's Naturalism 15: Nature, Morality and Homosexuality 16: Can Sex be Reasonable? 17: Moralistic Liberalism and Legal Moralism 18: Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement Index ...
