Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality pdf

Robert P. George è professore di giurisprudenza McCormick e direttore del programma James Madison in American Ideals and Institutions. È stato presidente della Commissione degli Stati Uniti per la libertà religiosa internazionale (USCIRF), e prima ancora del President's Council on Bioethics e come nominato presidenziale della Commissione dei diritti civili degli Stati Uniti. Ha anche servito come Stati Uniti membro della Commissione mondiale dell'UNESCO sull'etica della conoscenza scientifica e della tecnologia (COMEST). È un ex Judicial Fellow presso la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti, dove ha ricevuto il Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Laureato allo Swarthmore College, ha conseguito il J.D. e MTS diplomi dell'Università di Harvard e i diplomi di D.Phil., BCL, D.C.L. e D.Litt. dell'Università di Oxford. È stato visiting professor presso la Harvard Law School ed è membro del Council on Foreign Relations.

Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality pdf da 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.