The Witherspoon Institute’s Summer Seminars are a collection of intensive summer programs exploring vital moral questions in social, philosophical, legal, and political thought. These small seminars are led by some of the leading scholars of the United States and Great Britain, and they constitute the core of the Institute’s effort to encourage and inform outstanding young men and women at the high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels who aspire to academic careers and rigorous scholarship. [Read more…] about Summer Seminars 2013
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New from Encounter Books: What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense
Witherspoon Senior Fellow Robert P. George, in collaboration with Sherif Girgis (PhD candidate in philosophy, Princeton University; JD candidate, Yale University) and Ryan T. Anderson (PhD candidate in political theory, University of Notre Dame; editor of Public Discourse) have published as a book an expanded but less technical version of an earlier article of theirs: What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. The main thesis of the authors is that the primary problem behind present conflicts over the legal definition of marriage is a deeper disagreement over what marriage is. The book defines marriage as the comprehensive, complementary union of man and woman ordered to the begetting and rearing of children, the future members of society and the strongest reason why society has an interest in privileging and preserving such unions. [Read more…] about New from Encounter Books: What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense