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The persuasiveness of natural law

By Alliance Alert

John Creech writing at The Imaginative Conservative: "This past Wednesday night, Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideas and Institutions at Princeton University, gave the keynote address at the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston?s annual Red Mass . . . According to Dr. George, natural law theory provides a persuasive alternative to other theories because it can explain two features of human action and experience that other theories, such as utilitarianism and biological determinism, not only cannot explain, but dismiss as mere illusions. Natural law can also account for the fact that most of us act 'as if' there are morally binding, objective and universal principles of human conduct, even if we do not believe such principles exist."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).