In Defense of Natural Law

Robert George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. He is an former Presidential Appointee to the United States Commission on Human Rights, and has served as a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States

• 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

These essays reveal George to be an honourable, passionate, and intelligent defender of a moral and political theory which, both in its foundations and its understanding of law and policy, presents liberalism with an opponent it cannot ignore.