Social Cohesion and the Legal Enforcement of Morals: A Reconsideration of the Hart-Devlin Debate

Published Date: January 1, 1990 | Topics: Natural Law, Philosophy, Reviews and Commentaries

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Republicans and The Relics of Barbarism

Published Date: August 30, 2004 | Topics: Civil Rights and Liberties, Politics and Current Affairs

Moral conviction made the GOP the GOP. [This article was co-authored by Robert P. George and William L. Saunders.] In the middle of the 19th century, a new political party emerged dedicated to two great moral struggles. The Republican party pledged to fight the “twin relics of barbarism”: slavery and polygamy. By then, slavery was […]

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Infanticide and madness

Published Date: May 1, 2013 | Topics: Philosophy, Reviews and Commentaries

I am, of course, aware that infanticide was accepted and practiced in ancient Greece and Rome, and is still practiced (usually secretly, with winks and nods from public authorities, and with guilty denials by those who perform the killings and those officials who tolerate and sometimes even encourage them) in places like India and China […]

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