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  • Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 1 edition (November 1, 2002)
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5.0 out of 5 starsHandbook of American Social Conservatism
By David R. Oakley on January 22, 2002
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Here in Princeton, New Jersey there are a lot of highly educated people, including especially university professors and graduate students. Sometimes they share their viewpoints with the rest of us by pasting bumper stickers to their cars, usually older model Saabs or Volvos. I saw one the other day: "I do my part to keep the religious right angry." It conveys a widespread understanding among liberal elites that religious conservatives are not motivated by reason, at least not in their opinions about social issues, like abortion, euthanasia, and gay rights, which, from time to time, are the subject of public debate. Rather, they work from "prejudices" unthinkingly imported from their traditional religious beliefs into the political arena. Liberals believe that these conservatives would impose--not persuade or convince because their positions are not based in reason--their religious belief on the reasonable majority. A new book by Princeton professor Robert P. George, The Clash of Orthodoxies (ISI Books, 2001) challenges this understanding of religious conservatism. George, a Harvard and Oxford educated philosopher who holds the McCormick Chair of Jurisprudence once occupied by Princeton demigod Woodrow Wilson, sets out to make the case that the moral views of conservative Christians (often shared by observant Jews and other believers) are rationally defensible. Actually, he even goes farther, arguing throughout this 300-page work that "Judaeo-Christian moral teaching can be shown to be rationally superior to orthodox secular moral beliefs."
A remarkable thing about The Clash of Orthodoxies is its accessibility.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Rational Defense of (Catholic) Natural Law
By Kevin Davis VINE VOICE on January 14, 2005
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I'll keep my review short. Simply put, Professor George, a former student of John Finnis at Oxford, has created one of the best defenses of the Catholic Natural Law tradition, with no appeal to Divine Revelation -- which is an important point to make since your average skeptic considers Christian ethics as relying primarily, if not solely, on "irrational" faith. The book is primarily concerned with the effects of ethical subjectivism on legal/social matters; however, George nearly covers the whole gamut of ethical issues, including abortion, homosexuality, and contraception -- all in a clear, succinct manner. The first chapter alone is worth the purchase of the book; it is certainly one of the best essays I have read on the truth of Natual Law orthodoxy and Theistic Moral Realism, including a refutation of Atheistic Moral Realism (a la Iris Murdoch) via a debate with Josh Dever, who represents what George calls "liberal orthodoxy."

In order to get the most out of this book, one should also read George's 'Making Men Moral,' a defense of the social conservative position (e.g., communities banning pornography). If one enjoys George's work, he should also check out other books published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). ISI is one of the leading organizations promoting conservative thought in academia. Their list of books is quite impressive.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPolitical philosphy of the highest order
By Gregory J. Sullivan on November 24, 2002
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In The Clash of Orthodoxies, a limpidly written and deftly argued collections of essays, Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and one of the most important natural-law philosophers of our time, wants "to show that Christians and other believers are right to defend their positions on key moral issues as rationally superior to the alternatives proposed by secular liberals and those within the religious denominations who have abandoned traditional moral principles in favor of secularist morality." He triumphantly succeeds in this ambitious endeavor, and as a result our understanding of the cultural and moral struggle that convulses our country is vastly enriched.
To select one example from the numerous ones available in the book, Professor George's essay "The Concept of Public Morality" is a masterly clarification of an area that has become a terrible intellectual mess, a situation engendered by the reckless libertarianism of both the left and right. For instance, pornography is now an unavaidable part of our daily lives, and Professor George rightly contends that "where pornography flourishes, as it does in our own culture, it erodes important shared public understandings of sexuality and sexual morality on which the health of the institutions of marriage and family life in any culture vitally depend. This is a classic case in which the accumulation of apparently private choices of private parties has big public consequences." The stability (or what little stability is left) of what Professor George calls our "moral ecology" depends on the restoration of this kind of understanding in the place of the prevailing relativism that thwarts any serious reflection on the notion of public morality.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsReason in Defense of Life
By Jack Nowlin on November 22, 2002
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I can say without qualification that the Clash of Orthodoxies is one of the most important books of the last decade in the area of moral theory. There is simply no better reasoned case for the culture of life and no better examination of the philosophic heart of the debate between that culture and the many anti-life commitments of secular liberalism in contemporary America. In short, The Clash of Orthodoxies is an indispensable book, and it should be read by anyone who has an interest in engaging the moral arguments at the center of public discourse on the momentous topics of the culture of life.
Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, one of the most prestigious political science chairs in the country; he serves as director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, a dynamic new program centered at Princeton University and dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in constitutional studies and political thought; and he holds advanced degrees in law and legal theory from Harvard and Oxford. As one might expect, George's defense of traditional moral values evinces a high degree of philosophic sophistication, rivaling that of any moral theorist writing across the political spectrum today, and he is more than a match for liberal and leftist moral theorists such as John Rawls and Peter Singer.
Even so, no potential reader of this book should allow George's philosophic sophistication to give him pause. Indeed, the Clash of Orthodoxies manages simultaneously to communicate the essential core of the philosophic disputes at the center of the culture wars today and yet remain at a level easily accessible to the general reader and thoughtful non-specialist. Another virtue of George's books is its overarching fairness.Read more ›
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