Robby George On Natural Law And Christianity
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Andrew Sullivan interviews Robert P. George about natural law and its implications in Christianity and politics.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Robert P. George is a legal scholar and political philosopher. At Princetown, he’s the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He’s also a senior fellow at both the American Enterprise Institute and the Witherspoon Institute, which he co-founded. His many books include Making Men Moral and In Defense of Natural Law . We spent many years sparring in print over marriage, gays, and Catholicism. For two clips of the episode — on disobeying unjust laws, and the supposed harms of gay marriage — head to our YouTube page . Other topics: his dad’s harrowing service in WWII; Robby growing up in Appalachia with his grandfathers in the coal mines; first in his family to go to college; stories of both of us being at Oxford at the same time; the origins of bluegrass; Robert Byrd’s legacy; Plato’s Gorgias ; Aristotle and friendship; Robby’s close friendship with Cornel West; Montaigne; Aquinas; Vatican II; Eastern Orthodox liturgy; neo-scholasticism; Darwin’s survival of the fittest; Nietzsche; loving one’s enemy as uniquely…
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