Robert P. George

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Robert Peter George (syntynyt kesäkuun 10., 1955) on amerikkalainen oikeusoppinut ja poliittinen filosofi, joka toimii oikeustieteen professorina Princetonin yliopistossa. Hän luennoi perustuslain tulkinnasta, kansalaisvapauksista, oikeusteoriasta ja poliittisesta filosofiasta.

Elämä ja koulutus

George syntyi kesäkuun 10., 1955. Hän kasvoi Morgantownissa, Länsi-Virginiassa,1 maahanmuuttaneiden hiilikaivoksen työntekijöiden lapsen lapsena. Hän sai koulutuksensa Swarthmore Collegessa(BA), Harvardin yliopiston oikeustieteen laitoksella, Harvardin yliopiston teologisessa tiedekunnassa (MTS in Social Policy), ja Oxfordin yliopistossa (filosofian tohtori).2 Oxfordin yliopistossa hän opiskelin John Finnisin ja Joseph Razin ohjauksessa.

Akateeminen ura

George joined the faculty of Princeton University as an instructor in 1985, and in the following year became an assistant professor (a tenure-track position).Malline:Citation needed He spent 1988–89 on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Fellow in Law at Oxford University, working on his book Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (1993, Oxford University Press).Malline:Citation needed George was promoted to associate professor at Princeton in 1994, and to professor in 1999, being named to Princeton’s McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence, a celebrated endowed professorship previously held by Woodrow Wilson, Edward S. Corwin, Alpheus T. Mason, and Walter F. Murphy.Malline:Citation needed

George founded Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in 2000 and continues to serve as its director.3 Since 2007, George has been teaching undergraduate seminars on leading thinkers in Western intellectual history with friend and colleague Cornel West, a leading left-wing public intellectual;4 readings have included Sophocles's Antigone, Plato's Gorgias, St. Augustine’s Confessions, Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto, Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, Strauss’s Natural Right and History, and King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail".Malline:Citation needed The George-West collaboration—allowing only 18 students, many fewer than want to attend5 — has drawn attention on campus.6 George is a Permanent Research Fellow of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.7

He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, receiving during his tenure there the Justice Tom C. Clark Award.2 He has served on UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), of which he remains a corresponding member.2 He is a member of the boards of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (where he is Vice-Chairman of the Board),8 the American Enterprise Institute,9 the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty,10 and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.11 George is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.12

George has served or serves on the editorial boards of Touchstone and the advisory council of First Things.1314

George drafted the Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto signed by Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical leaders that "promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same-sex marriage.".1

Along with other public intellectuals, George played a key role in creating the "theoconservative" movement and integrating it into mainstream Republicanism.15 Much of George's work on religious liberty has centered on the idea that religion is a "distinct human good," which he asserts allows people to "live authentically by ordering one's life in line with one's best judgments of conscience."16

George was threatened with death by pro-choice extremist Theodore Shulman, who also targeted Priests for Life director Rev. Frank Pavone, saying that they would be killed if the accused killer of Dr. George Tiller (a Wichita abortion-provider) was acquitted. For his crimes, Shulman was sentenced by Federal Judge Paul A. Crotty to 41 months' imprisonment, 3 years' supervised release, and assessed a $100 special fee.17

Teokset

Kirjat

  • Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays, 1992. ISBN 0-19-823552-6
  • Making Men Moral, 1995. ISBN 0-19-826024-5
  • Natural Law and Moral Inquiry: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Politics in the Work of Germain Grisez, 1998. ISBN 0-87840-674-3
  • In Defense of Natural Law, 1999. ISBN 0-19-826771-1
  • The Autonomy of Law: Essays on Legal Positivism, 1999. ISBN 0-19-826790-8
  • Natural Law and Public Reason, 2000. ISBN 0-87840-766-9
  • Great Cases in Constitutional Law, 2000. ISBN 0-691-04952-1
  • The Clash of Orthodoxies, 2001. ISBN 1-882926-62-5
  • Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality, 2001. ISBN 0-19-924300-X
  • Constitutional Politics: Essays on Constitution Making, Maintenance, and Change, 2001 ISBN 0-691-08869-1
  • The Meaning of Marriage: Family, State, Market, And Morals, 2006 ISBN 1-890626-64-3
  • Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics, 2007 ISBN 978-0-521-88248-4
  • Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, 2008 ISBN 0-385-52282-7
  • Moral Pública: Debates Actuales, 2009 ISBN 978-956-8639-05-1
  • What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, 2012 ISBN 978-1594036224
  • Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism, 2013 ISBN 978-1610170703

Artikkelit

  • "Law, Democracy, and Moral Disagreement", Harvard Law Review, Vol. 110, pp. 1388–1406 (1997)
  • "Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexual Acts", Yale Law Journal, Vol. 106, pp. 2475–2504 (1997)
  • "The Concept of Public Morality", American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 45, pp. 17–31 (2000)
  • "Human Cloning and Embryo Research", Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 3–20 (2004)
  • George, Robert P. (20 March 2009). "He Threw It All Away". First Things. Viitattu 20 July 2009. 

Viitteet

  1. > 1,0 1,1 Viittausvirhe: Virheellinen <ref>-elementti;viitettä nytimes ei löytynyt
  2. > 2,0 2,1 2,2 "Robert P. George" . Viitattu September 23, 2016. 
  3. ^ "Bringing Civic Education Back to Campus | Excellence in Philanthropy" . Philanthropyroundtable.org. Viitattu 2015-06-27. 
  4. ^ Dyson, Michael Eric (2015). "The Ghost of Cornel West," The New Republic, April 19. Retrieved 2016-4-13.
  5. ^ Robert George, 2015, "Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism," C-SPAN2:Book TV at Princeton University, March 21, 2015.Malline:Full citation needed
  6. ^ Eric Quiñones (2007-04-05). "Princeton University - Wrestling with great books and ideas". Princeton.edu. Viitattu 2015-06-27. 
  7. ^ "Permanent Research Fellows" . ND Center for Ethics and Culture. Viitattu 21 May 2016. 
  8. ^ "Board of Directors" . Ethics and Public Policy Center. Viitattu 30 September 2015. 
  9. ^ "Council of Academic Advisors" . American Enterprise Institute. Viitattu 30 September 2015. 
  10. ^ "Board of Directors" . The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Viitattu 30 September 2015. 
  11. ^ "Board of Directors" . Bradleyfdn.org. Viitattu 2015-06-27. 
  12. ^ "Membership Roster" . Council on Foreign Relations. Viitattu 30 September 2015. 
  13. ^ "About Touchstone" . touchstonemag.com. Viitattu 30 September 2015. 
  14. ^ "Masthead" . First Things. Viitattu 30 September 2015. 
  15. ^ Sullivan, Andrew. The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back. New York: HarperCollins, 2006; ISBN 9780060188771.Malline:Page needed
  16. ^ http://contemporarythinkers.org/robert-george/
  17. ^ Gearty, Robert (May 10, 2012). "Abortion extremist faces 4-year jail term". New York Daily News. 


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