Natural Law - Robert P. George

[This article was co-authored by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen.]

Natural law ethics forms a distinctive family of ethical theories, all of which take the human good, or human well-being, as central to their theoretical approach. After a period of diminishing influence following the Enlightenment, during which natural law theory was largely a matter for Catholic seminaries, natural ethics has seen a resurgence in recent decades in normative ethics, philosophy of law, political theory, and applied ethics.

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Terri Schiavo: A Right to Life Denied or a Right to Die Honored?

Published Date: January 1, 2005 | Topics: Constitutional Issues, Philosophy, Politics and Current Affairs

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The 1993 St. Ives Lecture – Natural Law and Civil Rights: From Jefferson’s “Letter to Henry Lee” to Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”

Published Date: January 1, 1993 | Topics: Natural Law, Politics and Current Affairs, Reviews and Commentaries

[This article was adapted from a lecutre delivered by Robert P. George on April 21, 1993.] Read in Catholic University Law Review.

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