Natural Law and Public Reason 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.

Natural Law and Public Reason pdf da Robert Peter George

"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. As articulated by John Rawls, it presents a way to overcome the difficulties created by intractable differences among citizens' religious and moral beliefs by strictly confining the place of such convictions in the public sphere. Identifying this conception as a key point of conflict, this book presents a debate among contemporary natural law and liberal political theorists on the definition and validity of the idea of public reason. Its distinguished contributors examine the consequences of interpreting public reason more broadly as "right reason," according to natural law theory, versus understanding it in the narrower sense in which Rawls intended. They test public reason by examining its implications for current issues, confronting the questions of abortion and slavery and matters relating to citizenship. This energetic exchange advances our understanding of both Rawls's contribution to political philosophy and the lasting relevance of natural law. It provides new insights into crucial issues facing society today as it points to new ways of thinking about political theory and practice.