Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality

Robert George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University

• 1. Is Natural Law Theory Compatible with Limited Government? ; 2. Against the Old Sexual Morality of the New natural Law ; 3. Is Modern Liberalism Compatible with Limited Government?: The Case of Rawls ; 4. John Rawls's New Conception of the Problem of Limited Government: Reply to Michael Zuckert ; 5. Judgemental Toleration ; 6. Liberty and Trust ; 7. Being Worthy of Trust: A Response to Joseph Raz ; 8. Getting Normative: The Role of Natural Rights in Constitutional Adjudication ; 9. The Illegitimacy of Appeals to Natural Law in Constitutional Interpretation ; 10. The Moral Point of View ; 11. Lloyd Weinreb's Problems with Natural Law ; 12. Good Without God ; 13. 'Deus sive Natura': Must Natural Lawyers Choose? ; 14. God's Natural Laws ; 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 oponent it cannot ignore.