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Robert P. George
Other affiliations: University of Notre Dame, Villanova University
Bio: Robert P. George is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Natural law & Positive law. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 69 publications receiving 1240 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert P. George include University of Notre Dame & Villanova University.
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TL;DR: This paper argued that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a "pluralistic perfectionist" political theory of civil liberties and public morality, and that moral laws can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the moral ecology of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others.
Abstract: Contemporary liberal thinkers commonly suppose that there is something in principle unjust about the legal prohibition of putatively victimless immoralities. Against the prevailing liberal view, Robert P. George defends the proposition that 'moral laws' can play a legitimate, if subsidiary, role in preserving the 'moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people make the morally significant choices by which they form their characters and influence, for good or ill, the moral lives of others. George shows that a defence of morals legislation is fully compatible with a 'pluralistic perfectionist' political theory of civil liberties and public morality.
118 citations
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: A defense of the new natural law theory is given in this paper, where the authors argue that the "Incommensurabiltiy Thesis" Imperils Common Sense Moral Judgements.
Abstract: Introduction 1. A DEFENSE OF THE NEW NATURAL LAW THEORY 2. Recent Criticism of Natural Law Theory 3. Natural Law and Human Nature 4. Does the ' Incommensurabiltiy Thesis' Imperil Common Sense Moral Judgements 5. Natural Law and Positive Law 6. Free Choice, Practical Reason and Fitness for the Rule of Law 7. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND POLITICAL MORALITY 8. Marriage and the Liberal Imagination 9. What Sex Can Be: Alienation, Illusion, or One-Flesh Union 10. Making Children Moral: Pornography, Parents and the Public Interest 11. Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexual Acts 12. Natural Law and International Order 13. MORAL PARTICULARISM, THOMISM, AND TRADITIONS 14. Human Flourishing as a Criterion of Morality: A Critique of Percy's Naturalism 15. Nature, Morality and Homosexuality 16. Can Sex be Reasonable? 17. Moralistic Liberalism and Legal Moralism 18. Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement Index
113 citations
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: One that the authors will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing embryo a defense of human life as the reading material.
Abstract: Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing embryo a defense of human life as the reading material.
108 citations
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01 Jan 2007TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that human beings are animals and humans are persons, and the body is a property of the human being and not of the animal itself, and that sex and the human body are linked.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Human beings are animals 2. Human beings are persons 3. Hedonism and hedonistic drug-taking 4. Abortion 5. Euthanasia 6. Sex and the body.
87 citations
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21 May 1992
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce natural law, practical reasoning, and moral reasoning, and legal formalism as a functional kind of natural law and its relation to the rule of law.
Abstract: Robert P. George: Introduction I: Natural Law, Practical Reasoning, and Morality:Joseph Boyle: Natural law and the ethics of traditions Robert P. George: Natural Law and human nature Russell Hittinger: Natural law and virtue: Theories at cross-purposes Jeffrey Stout: Truth, natural law, and ethical theory II: Natural Law and Legal Theory: Neil MacCormick: Natural law and the separation of law and morals John Finnis: Natural law and legal reasoning Jeremy Waldron: The irrelevance of moral objectivity Michael Moore: Law as a functional kind III: Natural Law, Justice, and Rights: Hadley Arkes: That 'Nature herself has placed in our ears a power of judging': Some reflections on the 'Naturalism' of Cicero Lloyd Weinreb: Natural law and rights IV: Legal Formalism and Legal Rationality: Joseph Raz: Formalism and the rule of law Ernest Weinrib: Why legal formalism?
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an account of dimensions of human development, and show its usefulness and its limitations both in general and in relation to Amartya Sen's capability approach.
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01 Jan 2005TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect after a very long day in Moscow on the rational choice of culture and the theory and practice of social capital in the social democratic welfare state, and the conditions of trust and the capacity of dialogue.
Abstract: 1. Reflections after a very long day in Moscow 2. On the rational choice of culture 3. On the theory and practice of social capital 4. Social capital in the social democratic welfare state 5. How is social capital produced? 6. The problem of institutional credibility 7. Trust and collective memories 8. The transition from mistrust to trust 9. The conditions of trust and the capacity of dialogue.
472 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop an account of a multi-objective corporation as a means for enabling a greater range of management decisions so as to permit more direct corporate engagement in the diverse goals of various stakeholders.
Abstract: Social welfare, or the good society, is of central concern to the Academy of Management. We begin by observing that, in theory and practice, social welfare appears to be a multifarious, multidimensional, pluralistic concept. In light of this, we develop an account of a multi-objective corporation as a means for enabling a greater range of management decisions so as to permit more direct corporate engagement in the diverse goals of various stakeholders. In the course of doing this, we critique aspects of single-objective theories of corporate function and argue that a key objection to multi-objective views can be avoided. Our analysis is built on a stakeholder agency framework wherein corporate actions reflect the outcome of an intracorporate “marketplace.” We suggest that improvements in social welfare are more likely when intracorporate markets among stakeholders can operate unconstrained by some single-valued objective.
172 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace teacher education development and reform in terms of the major questions that have driven the field and the sometimes competing ways these questions have been constructed, debated, and enacted in research, policy, and practice.
169 citations
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02 Apr 2009
TL;DR: Eisenberg and Spinner-Halev as mentioned in this paper argued that intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity: re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation Gurpreet Mahajan 5.
Abstract: Introduction Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev Part I. Toleration: 1. Tolerable liberalism Melissa S. Williams 2. A liberalism of conscience Lucas Swaine Part II. Equality: 3. Multiculturalism and feminism: no simple question, no simple answers Susan Moller Okin 4. Can intra-group equality co-exist with cultural diversity?: re-examining multicultural frameworks of accommodation Gurpreet Mahajan 5. Gender versus culture: not always a deep disagreement Anne Phillips 6. The rights of internal linguistic minorities Alan Patten Part III. Individual Autonomy: 7. Autonomy, association and pluralism Jeff Spinner-Halev 8. Sexual orientation, exit and refuge Jacob T. Levy 9. On exit Oonagh Reitman 10. Exit 'exit rights': reframing the debate Daniel M. Weinstock Part IV. Self-Determination: 12. Identity and liberal politics: the problem of minorities within minorities Avigail Eisenberg 13. Internal minorities and indigenous self-determination Margaret Moore 14. Self-determination as a basic human right: the draft UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Cindy Holder Part V. Democracy: 15. Associative democracy and minorities within minorities Veit Bader 16. A deliberative approach to conflicts of culture Monique Deveaux.
161 citations