Robert P. (Hrsg.) George

Natural Law and Public Reason

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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. The contributors test public reason by examining its implications for current issues, confronting the questions of abortion and slav… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wolfe, Christopher (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-87840-766-8
EAN: 9780878407668
Produktnummer: 1554962
Verlag: Georgetown University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H15.5 cm x B22.9 cm x D2.0 cm 364 g
Gewicht: 364
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and the author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford, 1993) and In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford, 1999). Christopher Wolfe is professor of political science at Marquette University and the author of The Rise of Modern Judicial Review (Basic Books, 1986).