Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth

Auteur

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and institutions at Princeton University. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. President's Council on Bioethics. He has also been the U.S. member of uNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of JD and MTS from Harvard University and the degrees of Phil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University. he is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal and Princeton University's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. he is Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Texte du rabat

In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth, Robert George, an acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar who has taught generations of students at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, tackles many of the most vexing and divisive issues in American politics. He demonstrates what it means to reason one's way to conclusions on controversial issues, rather than simply following the tribe or the crowd, or allowing oneself to be dragged around by one's feelings or emotions. George has long proclaimed that it is a teacher's sacred mission to form his students to be determined truth seekers and courageous truth speakers. In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth he illustrates that teaching by showing us how it's done.