Robert P. George
 | Professor of
Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American
Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Liberalism and Catholicism in the Public Square 12/01/2005 In the modern disputes over “life issues,” such as
abortion and infanticide, cloning and embryo-destructive research, and
physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, as well as issues pertaining to sex,
marriage, and family life, what principles and norms can be reasonably affirmed
both by religious believers and unbelievers? Robert P. George examines the
answers that modern liberalism and catholicism provide to that question. He
draws on the work of the two chief philosophers of modern liberalism, John Rawl
and J?rgen Habermas, and on the Catholic doctrine of natural law. Read the text of the lecture Watch the video Listen to the audio |