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

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[This article was adapted from a lecutre delivered by Robert P. George on April 21, 1993.]

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Public Morality, Public Reason

Published Date: November 1, 2006 | Topics: Philosophy, Religion, Reviews and Commentaries

A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist liberals and those who, while remaining within the religious denominations, have adopted essentially secularist liberal ideas about personal and political morality. The contest manifests itself in disputes over abortion, embryo-destructive research, and euthanasia, as well as in issues […]

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Natural Law and the Unity and Truth of Sexual Ethics: A Reply to Gary Gutting

Published Date: March 17, 2015 | Topics: Natural Law, Religion, Reviews and Commentaries

Catholic sexual ethics are as fully reasonable today as they were in the time of St Paul. In fact, the natural law understanding of human fulfillment is inherently intelligible even without a theistic framework. [This article was co-written by John Finnis and Robert P. George.] Gary Gutting is a Notre Dame philosophy professor who thinks […]

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