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Print Price: $53.95

Format:
Paperback
324 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199243006

Publication date:
March 2001

Imprint: OUP UK

Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality

Contemporary Essays

Edited by Robert George

Natural law, Liberalism and Morality brings together leading defenders of natural law and liberalism for a series of frank and lively exchanges touching upon critical issues of contemporary moral and political theory. The book is an outstanding example of the fruitful engagement of traditions of thought about fundamental matters of ethics and justice.

Readership : Scholars and postgraduates interested in legal philosophy, legal history, and political theory

Reviews

`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 oponent it cannot ignore.'
MIND 7/1/2000

1. John Finnis: Is Natural Law Theory Compatible with Limited Government?
2. Stephen Macedo: Against the Old Sexual Morality of the New natural Law
3. Michael P. Zuckert: Is Modern Liberalism Compatible with Limited Government?: The Case of Rawls
4. Jeffrey Reiman: John Rawls's New Conception of the Problem of Limited Government: Reply to Michael Zuckert
5. Michael J. Sandel: Judgemental Toleration
6. Joseph Raz: Liberty and Trust
7. Christopher Wolfe: Being Worthy of Trust: A Response to Joseph Raz
8. Randy E. barnett: Getting Normative: The Role of Natural Rights in Constitutional Adjudication
9. Walter Berns: The Illegitimacy of Appeals to Natural Law in Constitutional Interpretation
10. lloyd L. Weinreb: The Moral Point of View
11. Daniel N. Robinson: Lloyd Weinreb's Problems with Natural Law
12. Michael S. Moore: Good Without God
13. J. L. A. Garcia: `Deus sive Natura': Must Natural Lawyers Choose?
14. Charles Taliaferro: God's Natural Laws
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Robert George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University

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Original essays by leading names in legal philosophy and legal theory