Human Rights And Common Good: Collected Essays Volume Iii (collected Essays (oxford University Press))
by John Finnis /
2011 / English / PDF
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This central volume in the
This central volume in theCollected Essays
Collected Essays brings
together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to central issues
in political philosophy.
brings
together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to central issues
in political philosophy.
The volume begins by examining the general theory of political
community and social justice. It includes the powerful and
well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights -- a searching
critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political arguments and
conclusions, of the European Court of Human Rights' approach to
fundamental rights, and of judicial review as a constitutional
institution. It is followed by an equally searching analysis of
Kant's thought on the intersection of law, right, and ethics. Other
papers in the book's opening section include an early assessment of
Rawls's
The volume begins by examining the general theory of political
community and social justice. It includes the powerful and
well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights -- a searching
critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political arguments and
conclusions, of the European Court of Human Rights' approach to
fundamental rights, and of judicial review as a constitutional
institution. It is followed by an equally searching analysis of
Kant's thought on the intersection of law, right, and ethics. Other
papers in the book's opening section include an early assessment of
Rawls'sA Theory of
A Theory ofJustice
Justice, a radical
re-interpretation of Aquinas on limited government and the
significance of the private/public distinction, and a challenging
paper on virtue and the constitution.
, a radical
re-interpretation of Aquinas on limited government and the
significance of the private/public distinction, and a challenging
paper on virtue and the constitution.
The volume then focuses on central problems in modern political
communities, including the achievement of justice in work and
distribution; the practice of punishment; war and justice; the
public control of euthanasia and abortion; and the nature of
marriage and the common good. There are careful and vigorous
critiques of Nietzsche on morality, Hart on punishment, Dworkin on
the enforcement of morality and on euthanasia, Rawls on justice and
law, Thomson on the woman's right to choose, Habermas on abortion,
Nussbaum and Koppelman on same-sex relations, and Dummett and
Weithman on open borders.
The volume then focuses on central problems in modern political
communities, including the achievement of justice in work and
distribution; the practice of punishment; war and justice; the
public control of euthanasia and abortion; and the nature of
marriage and the common good. There are careful and vigorous
critiques of Nietzsche on morality, Hart on punishment, Dworkin on
the enforcement of morality and on euthanasia, Rawls on justice and
law, Thomson on the woman's right to choose, Habermas on abortion,
Nussbaum and Koppelman on same-sex relations, and Dummett and
Weithman on open borders.
The volume's previously unpublished papers include a foundational
consideration of labor unions, a fresh statement of a new grounding
for the morality of sex, a surprising reading of C.S. Lewis's
The volume's previously unpublished papers include a foundational
consideration of labor unions, a fresh statement of a new grounding
for the morality of sex, a surprising reading of C.S. Lewis'sAbolition of Man
Abolition of Man on contraception, and an introduction
reviewing some of the remarkable changes in private and public
morality over the past half-century.
on contraception, and an introduction
reviewing some of the remarkable changes in private and public
morality over the past half-century.