Tag: Human Dignity

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Books

The Moral Status of the Human Embryo

– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity:  An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).
The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More

The Wrong of Abortion

– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).
Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More

Robby George on the Banjo

– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.
Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.

The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity

– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.
Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More

Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads

– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.
Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More

Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity

– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.
Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Dignity and Marriage

– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).

Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass

– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.
Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More

The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris

– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.
Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West

– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.
Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society

– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.

Essays

The Moral Status of the Human Embryo

– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity:  An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).
The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More

The Wrong of Abortion

– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).
Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More

Robby George on the Banjo

– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.
Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.

The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity

– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.
Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More

Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads

– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.
Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More

Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity

– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.
Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Dignity and Marriage

– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).

Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass

– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.
Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More

The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris

– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.
Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West

– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.
Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society

– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.

Commentary

The Moral Status of the Human Embryo

– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity:  An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).
The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More

The Wrong of Abortion

– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).
Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More

Robby George on the Banjo

– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.
Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.

The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity

– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.
Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More

Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads

– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.
Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More

Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity

– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.
Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Dignity and Marriage

– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).

Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass

– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.
Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More

The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris

– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.
Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West

– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.
Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society

– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.

Multimedia

The Moral Status of the Human Embryo

– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity:  An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).
The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More

The Wrong of Abortion

– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).
Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More

Robby George on the Banjo

– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.
Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.

The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity

– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.
Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More

Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads

– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.
Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More

Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity

– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.
Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Dignity and Marriage

– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).

Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass

– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.
Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More

The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris

– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.
Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West

– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.
Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society

– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.

Teaching

The Moral Status of the Human Embryo

– Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48:2 (Spring 2005), with Alfonso Gómez-Lobo. First published as "Statement of Professor George" in Leon R. Kass (ed.), Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council On Bioethics (Public Affairs, 2002), pp. 294-306; and Human Cloning and Human Dignity:  An Ethical Inquiry (The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002).
The subject matter of Human Cloning and Human Dignity (President’s Council 2002) is the production of a human embryo by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or similar… More

The Wrong of Abortion

– In Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher H. Wellman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2005), with Patrick Lee. Reprinted in Carol Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 11th edition (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2006).
Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in… More

Robby George on the Banjo

– Published June 24, 2008 by nnlp35, YouTube.
Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, plays the banjo after the First Things board meeting in 2008.

The Nature and Basis of Human Dignity

– Ratio Juris 21:2 (June 2008), with Patrick Lee.
Abstract: We argue that all human beings have a special type of dignity which is the basis for (1) the obligation all of us have not to kill them, (2) the obligation to take their… More

Robert George and Cornel West on Bloggingheads

– Princeton University, published December 15, 2010, bloggingheads.tv.
Robert George and Cornel West discuss irreducible human dignity, how to keep power from corrupting , the evil of greed, why the left is on the wrong side of history when it come to… More

Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity

– Gospel and Culture Lecture at the Center for Faith & Work, March 20, 2011, YouTube.
Natural law theorists believe that since all humans are made in the image of God, every person possesses irreducible capacities for rationality, freedom, and moral discernment. Natural law… More

Religious liberty and the human good

– International Journal of Religious Freedom 5:1 (2012).
Abstract: “Religious liberty and the human good” is a defense of a robust conception of the obligations of governments to respect and protect religious freedom for the sake of the… More

Dignity and Marriage

– In Christopher McCrudden (ed.), Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford UP/The British Academy, 2014).

Robert P. George Trio – Bluegrass

– With Michael Smith on guitar and David George on bass, published by Cafe Improv, August 23, 2014, YouTube.
Guitarist Michael Smith and guitarist-and-banjo-player Robby George offer an eclectic mix of American music from bluegrass instrumentals, to popular standards, to 60s folk numbers. They… More

The Ontological Status of Embryos: A Reply to Jason Morris

– Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:5 (2014), with Patrick Lee and Christopher Tollefsen.
Abstract: In various places we have defended the position that a new human organism, that is, an individual member of the human species, comes to be at fertilization, the union of the… More

Russia’s Extremism Law Violates Human Rights

– The Moscow Times, November 26, 2014, with Katrina Lantos Swett.
Last Friday, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled “extremist” by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander… More

Hauenstein Center American Conversations: Robert P. George and Cornel West

– A Dialogue on "A Workable Armistice in the Culture Wars," between keynote speakers, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, April 2, 2015, YouTube.
Professors Robert P. George and Cornel West visited GVSU for the Hauenstein Center’s final American Conversations keynote of the 2014-2015 season. Their talk “A Workable… More

Robert P. George’s Wilberforce Award Speech

– Colson Center, published June 11, 2015, YouTube.
Dr. Robert P. George, recipient of the 2015 William Wilberforce Award, speaks on standing up for Christian values in an Ivy League institution.

Five Pillars of a Decent and Dynamic Society

– In James R. Stoner, Jr. and Harold James (eds.), The Thriving Society: On The Social Conditions of Human Flourishing (The Witherspoon Institute, 2015). First presented as the keynote address at John Paul II Australian Leaders Forum, Sydney, August 2012; Lecture in the Loyola University’s Centennial Celebration, March 2013; Keynote address at Sutherland Institute's 2013 Annual Dinner, April 2013; Lecture at Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, September 2013.