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What Is Marriage? Man and Woman - A Defense

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ISBN-10: 1594036225

ISBN-13: 9781594036224

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Robert P. George

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Sherif Girgisis a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Princeton University and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa andsumma cum laudefrom Princeton, where he had won prizes for best senior thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy, as well as the Dante Society of America’s national Dante Prize, he obtained a B.Phil. in moral, political, and legal philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Robert P. Georgeis McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to…    

Sherif Girgisis a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Princeton University and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa andsumma cum laudefrom Princeton, where he had won prizes for best senior thesis in ethics and best thesis in philosophy, as well as the Dante Society of America’s national Dante Prize, he obtained a B.Phil. in moral, political, and legal philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Robert P. Georgeis McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to…    

A Note on Authorship
Acknowledgments
From Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser
Introduction
Two Views of Marriage
Why This Book Now
What We Will Show
What Our Argument Is Not
Challenges to Revisionists
The State Has an Interest in Regulating Some Relationships?
Only If They Are Sexual?
Only If They Are Monogamous?
Comprehensive Union
Comprehensive Unifying Acts: Mind and Body
Comprehensive Unifying Goods: Procreation and Domestic Life
Comprehensive Commitment: A Rational Basis for Norms of Permanence and Exclusivity
The State and Marriage
Why Civil Marriage?
Is Marriage Endlessly Malleable?
What's the Harm?
Weakening Marriage: Making It Harder to Realize
Weakening Marriage and Expanding Government: Eroding Marital Norms
Making Mother or Father Superfluous
Threatening Moral and Religious Freedom
Undermining Friendship
The "Conservative" Objection
Justice and Equality
The Case of Infertility
The Injustice of Bans on Interracial Marriage
A Cruel Bargain?
Practical Needs
Dignitary Harm
Personal Fulfillment, Public Recognition
Conclusion
Appendix: Further Reflections on Bodily Union
Notes
Index