Robert P. George, "The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis"
English | ISBN: 1882926943 | 2002 | 420 pages | EPUB | 499 KB
English | ISBN: 1882926943 | 2002 | 420 pages | EPUB | 499 KB
In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Secular liberals typically suppose that their positions on morally charged issues of public policy are the fruit of pure reason, while those of their morally conservative opponents reflect an irrational religious faith. George shows that this supposition is wrong on both counts. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, euthanasia, same-sex unions, civil rights and liberties, and the place of religion in public life, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs are rationally superior to secular liberal alternatives.
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