Robert p george natural law. Would it not be excellent to have a sophisticated defense of this moral theory. Yet these features still require the reader to be already familiar with ethics meta ethics metaphysics and natural law. I approached this book with considerable sympathy.
In defense of natural law robert p. This volume presents twelve original essays by leading natural law theorists and their critics. George clarendon press oxford 1999 343 pgs.
The essays are sensibly organized balanced in approach and sufficiently diverse in approach to reveal the inherent complexity and controversiality of this once passe and now vital topic ronald moore university of washington this well balanced collection provides a lucid and reliable compendium of the most important. This is a superb collection of recent essays in natural law theory. Robert peter george born july 10 1955 is an american legal scholar political philosopher and public intellectual who serves as the sixth mccormick professor of jurisprudence and director of the james madison program in american ideals and institutions at princeton universityhe lectures on constitutional interpretation civil liberties philosophy of law and political philosophy.
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 basicproblems of justice and political morality. The contributors discuss natural law theories of morality law and legal reasoning politics and the rule of law. In making men moral his 1995 book george questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory.