Robert P. George
contemporaryNew Natural Law Theoryb. 1955
Robert P. George (b. 1955) is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and a leading contemporary exponent of natural law theory in ethics, politics, and constitutional jurisprudence. He draws on the new natural law tradition associated with Germain Grisez and John Finnis to address contested questions in bioethics, sexual ethics, and the foundations of liberal democracy. A prominent Catholic intellectual, he has been widely influential in American conservative legal and political thought.
Notable Achievements
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Developed and popularized new natural law theory in American academic and political contexts alongside Grisez and Finnis
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Co-authored 'What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense' (with Girgis and Anderson), a widely debated philosophical argument against same-sex marriage
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Co-authored 'Embryo: A Defense of Human Life', providing a natural law basis for embryo moral status
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Founded and chaired the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; served on the President's Council on Bioethics
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