Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence in the politics department, received this year's Richard Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters. The prize is given by the Ingersoll Foundation in honor of the "ideals of civic order and human dignity."
"I'm honored and happy to be among the distinguished people who have won this award in the past," George said. "I'm especially glad that it's going to give us an opportunity for a conference . . . [that] engages some of the ideas I've been interested in in my scholarship."
In addition to a $25,000 prize, the Weaver, announced last week, gives the winner the honor of choosing the topic for the two-day symposium — Oct. 18 and 19 at Belmont Abbey College — where the award will be presented. George has chosen "American Ideals and Institutions: The Challenges Ahead."
"I'd like to examine the nation's founding principles," George said, elaborating on his chosen theme, "and the institutions designed in the constitution to effectuate these principles in light of contemporary problems in such areas as American foreign policy, biotechnology, social and economic affairs and the place of religion in American public life."
George has long been interested in the debate over the questions of community and morality that he has chosen to explore in the symposium. He is author of "Making Man Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality," "In Defense of Natural Law" and "The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law Morality and Religion in Crisis," among others.
In addition, George is the founding director of the University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, which lists as one of its concerns "the relationship between political institutions and the institutions of civil society, and that between political liberty and civic virtue."
The Weaver Award marks George's second honor in recent months. In January, President Bush named him to the President's Council on Bioethics.
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