In Defense of Natural Law

Name: In Defense of Natural Law
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ISBN: 9780199242993

ISBN-10: 0199242992

ISBN-13: 9780199242993

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert P. George

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In `Making Men Moral', Robert 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 defendnatural 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…

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List price: $86.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction



Theoretical Issues



A Defense of the New Natural Law Theory



Recent Criticism of Natural Law Theory



Natural Law and Human Nature



Does the Incommensurability Thesis Imperil Common Sense Moral Judgements?



Natural Law and Positive Law



Free Choice, Practical Reason and Fitness for the Rule of Law



Moral and Political Questions



Religious Liberty and Political Morality



Marriage and the Liberal Imagination



What Sex Can Be: Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Union



Making Children Moral: Pornography, Parents and the Public Interest.



Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexual Acts



Natural Law and International Order



Dialectical Engagement



Moral Particularism, Thomism, and Traditions



Hu man Flourishing as a Criterion of Morality: A Critique of Percy's Naturalism



Nature, Morality and Homosexuality



Can Sex be Reasonable?



Moralistic Liberalism and Legal Moralism



Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement


Index