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Title: In Defense of Natural Law by Robert P. George ISBN: 0-19-924299-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Tome, But Not the Place to Start
Comment: George is an adroit, articulate, and erudite author, and this book is a well-crafted and intelligently-designed defense of modern natural law theory. Yet, these features still require the reader to be already familiar with ethics, meta-ethics, metaphysics, and natural law. This book is for graduate students and advanced undergraduates; it's not directed toward a general readership. For a simpler, more straight-forward account cf, Finnis, "Natural Law and Natural Rights," (OUP, 1982).
George defends the neo-Thomistic view of natural law as refined by Messrs. Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle. This is not an uncontroversial stance. The core of the book is Chapter III, where the Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle version of natural law that George intends to defend is given. The book is rigorous and examines natural-law theory from variegated angles and various detractors, making close reading of dense argument necessary. The early chapters presuppose knowledge of natural law theory; thus, neophytes may profitably read Chapter III first. Chapter II is reserved for those already versed in natural law theory and want a examination of meta-ethics nuances.
I didn't like the way the naturalistic fallacy is handled (more "sidelined"), as if it is a minor point to a major premise. But George's defense of natural law theory avoids the fallacy (norms derived from facts) by using the Grisez, Finnis, and Boyle model, and succeeds in staying clear of metaphysical foundations. This caveat aside, I know of no better, one-volume, exhaustive, and sustained argument for natural law theory. It's dizzying reading, and even if inevitably unconvincing, generally worthwhile.
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Title: The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis by Robert P. George ISBN: 1882926625 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Natural Law and Natural Rights by John Finnis ISBN: 0198761104 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: March, 1980 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays by Robert P. George ISBN: 0198235526 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by J. Budziszewski ISBN: 083081891X Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in the Post-Christian World by Russell Hittinger ISBN: 188292682X Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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