Natural Law and Public Reason

Informationen zum Autor Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford! 1993) and In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford! 1999). Christopher Wolfe is professor of political science at Marquette University and the author of The Rise of Modern Judicial Review (Basic Books! 1986). Klappentext Public reason is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. As articulated by John Rawls! it presents a way to overcome the difficulties created by intractable differences among citizens' religious and moral beliefs by strictly confining the place of such convictions in the public sphere.Identifying this conception as a key point of conflict! this book presents a debate among contemporary natural law and liberal political theorists on the definition and validity of the idea of public reason. The contributors test public reason by examining its implications for current issues! confronting the questions of abortion and slavery and matters relating to citizenship. Zusammenfassung "Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. Identifying this conception as a key point of conflict! this book presents a debate among contemporary natural law and liberal political theorists on the definition and validity of the idea of public reason. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Robert P. George and Christopher Wolfe In Defense of Liberal Public Reason: Are Slavery and Abortion Hard Cases? Stephen Macedo Natural Law and Public Reason Robert P. George and Christopher Wolfe Abortion! Natural Law! and Public Reason John Finnis Abortion! Natural Law! and Liberal Discourse A Response to John Finnis Jeffrey Reiman Citizenship and Public Reason Paul J. Weithman Political Liberalism! Pubic Reason! and the Citizen of Faith Patrick Neal Contributors Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Robert P. George, Robert P. Wolfe George
• Assisted by: Robert P. George (Editor), Robert P. (Princeton University) George (Editor), Christopher Wolfe (Editor), Christopher (American Public Philosophy Institute) Wolfe (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2000
• EAN: 9780878407668
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-766-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Natural Law and Public Reason; Natural Law and Public Reason
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas