Natural Law and Public Reason 0878407650, 0878407669

"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. As articulated by John Rawl

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Table of contents :
Introduction
Robert P. George and Christopher Wolfe

In Defense of Liberal Public Reason: Are Slavery and Abortion Hard Cases?
Stephen Macedo

Natural Law and Public Reason
Robert P. George and Christopher Wolfe

Abortion, Natural Law, and Public Reason
John Finnis

Abortion, Natural Law, and Liberal Discourse
A Response to John Finnis
Jeffrey Reiman

Citizenship and Public Reason
Paul J. Weithman

Political Liberalism, Pubic Reason, and the Citizen of Faith
Patrick Neal

Contributors
Index
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NATURAL LAW and

PUBLIC REASON edited

by

Robert P. George Christopher Wolfe

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS/ WASHINGTON, D.C.

Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 02000 by Georgetown University Prc.s. All rights res