Robert P. George

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Full Name	Robert P. George
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Jul 10, 1955(1955-07-10)
Age	69
Birthplace	West Virginia
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

Robert P. George Biography

Robert P. George is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on July 10, 1955 in West Virginia, United States. George was born July 10, 1955. He is of Syrian and Italian heritage. He was the grandson of coal miners who immigrated to West Virginia and grew up in Morgantown. He attended Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School(JD), Harvard Divinity School, (MTS), University of Oxford (DPhil), BCL, DCL and DLitt). He was a doctoral student at Oxford and studied philosophy of law with Joseph Raz. He also served as Lecturer in Jurisprudence at New College.

George was a president-appointed member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1993-1998 and the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009. In 2012, George was elected to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He served until he reached the 2016 statutory term limit.

On December 8, 2008, George was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush in a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House. His other awards include the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, the Sidney Hook Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. He holds nineteen honorary degrees, including a Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by the Universitat Abat Oliba CEU University in Barcelona, Spain in 2017. Also in 2017, Baylor University launched the “Robert P. George Initiative in Faith, Ethics, and Public Policy,” as part of its Baylor in Washington, D.C. program.

George’s critics, including many Catholic scholars, have argued that he has neglected critical aspects of the Christian message, including “the corruption of human reason through original sin, the need for forgiveness and charity and the chance for redemption,” focusing instead on “mechanics” of morality, and – through his political associations and activism – turned the church “into a tool of Republican Party.”

In 1985, George joined Princeton University’s faculty as an instructor. The following year, he was promoted to tenure-track assistant professor. He was a visiting fellow in law at Oxford University from 1988 to 1989, where he worked on Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and the Public Morality (1993 Oxford University Press). In 1994, George was promoted from associate professor to tenure at Princeton. He was also promoted to professor in 1999. In addition, he was named to Princeton’s McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence. This prestigious endowed professorship, previously held by Woodrow Wilson and Edward S. Corwin as well as Walter F. Murphy, was the McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence.

Robert P. George Net Worth

Robert P. George is one of the richest Philosopher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert P. George 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert Peter George, born July 10, 1955, is an American political philosopher, legal scholar, and public intellectual. He is the McCormick professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He lectures on constitutional interpretation and philosophy of law. George, a Catholic, has been regarded as one of the most prominent conservative intellectuals in the country.

George served two terms as West Virginia’s Governor and was an alternate delegate at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. In the 1980s, George shifted to the right mainly because of his views on abortion. He left the Democratic Party due to its increasing commitment to legal abortion and public funding. His growing doubts about the effectiveness and efficiency of large- scale government-run social welfare programs in Appalachia, rural areas, and low-income urban areas, as well as his growing distrust of the effectiveness of large-scale, government-run social services. George created the American Principles Project to promote his ideas. He was the past chairman of The National Organization for Marriage, an advocacy organization against same-sex marriage. He also co-founded the Renewal Forum, which is an organization that fights the sexual trafficking of women and children and the commercial exploitation of them.

George founded Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in 2000 and continues to serve as its director. Since 2007, George has been teaching undergraduate seminars on leading thinkers in Western intellectual history with friend and colleague Cornel West, a leading left- wing public intellectual; readings have included Sophocles’s Antigone, Plato’s Gorgias, St. Augustine’s Confessions, Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto, Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, Strauss’s Natural Right and History, Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, and King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. The George-West collaboration – allowing only 18 students, many fewer than want to attend – has drawn attention on campus and in the national media. In 2017, George and West did a three-hour interview together on C-Span’s “Book Notes.” They have also appeared together at colleges and universities around the country, arguing for civil dialogue and a broad conception of campus freedom of speech as essential to the truth-seeking mission of academic institutions. In March 2017, they jointly published the statement “Truth-Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression,” which has been signed by several thousand professors, students, academic administrators and others. In April 2019, George and West participated in an “assembly series” discussion at Washington University in St. Louis titled “Liberal Arts Education: What’s The Point?”.

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