Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality PDF

Robert P. George ist McCormick-Professor für Rechtswissenschaft und Direktor des James-Madison-Programms für amerikanische Ideale und Institutionen. Er war Vorsitzender der United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) und davor Mitglied des President's Council on Bioethics und als Präsidentschaftskandidat der United States Commission on Civil Rights tätig. Er hat auch als U.S. Mitglied der UNESCO-Weltkommission für Ethik des wissenschaftlichen Wissens und der Technologie (COMEST). Er ist ehemaliger Judicial Fellow am Supreme Court der Vereinigten Staaten, wo er den Justice Tom C. Clark Award erhielt. Als Absolvent des Swarthmore College hält er J.D. und M.T.S. Abschlüsse der Harvard University und die Abschlüsse D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L. und D.Litt. von der Universität Oxford. Er war Gastprofessor an der Harvard Law School und ist Mitglied des Council on Foreign Relations.

Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality pdf von Robert Peter George

Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless crimes. Here Robert P. George defends the traditional justification of morals legislation against criticisms advanced by leading liberal theorists. He argues that such legislation can play a legitimate role in maintaining a moral environment conducive to virtue and inhospitable to at least some forms of vice. Among the liberal critics of morals legislation whose views George considers are Ronald Dworkin, Jeremy Waldron, David A.J. Richards, and Joseph Raz. He also considers the influential modern justification for morals legislation offered by Patrick Devlin as an alternative to the traditional approach. George closes with a sketch of a "pluralistic perfectionist" theory of civil liberties and public morality, showing that it is fully compatible with a defense of morals legislation. Making Men Moral will interest legal scholars and political theorists as well as theologians and philosophers focusing on questions of social justice and political morality.