Natural law and natural rights / John Finnis

By:

John, Finnis

Material type: Text

TextSeries: (Clarendon law series)Publication details: Oxford : 1980. Clarendon Press,Edition: 1st editionDescription: xv, 425 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

0198761104

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DDC classification:

340 FIN

Contents:

Part one Chp 1.....Evaluation and the description of law Chp 2.....Images and objections Part two Chp 3.....A basic form of good: knowledge Chp 4.....The other basic values Chp 5....The basic requirements of practical reasonableness Chp 6....Community, communities, and common good Chp 7....Justice Chp 8....Rights Chp 9....Authority Chp 10....Law Chp 11....Obligation Chp12....Unjust laws Part three Chp13....Nature, reason, God

Summary: This book firmly integrates the philosophy of law with ethics, social theory and political philosophy. The author develops a sustained and substantive argument; it is not a review of other people's arguments but makes frequent illustrative and critical reference to classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary writers in ethics, social and political theory, and jurisprudence

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Part one
Chp 1.....Evaluation and the description of law
Chp 2.....Images and objections
Part two
Chp 3.....A basic form of good: knowledge
Chp 4.....The other basic values
Chp 5....The basic requirements of practical reasonableness
Chp 6....Community, communities, and common good
Chp 7....Justice
Chp 8....Rights
Chp 9....Authority
Chp 10....Law
Chp 11....Obligation
Chp12....Unjust laws
Part three
Chp13....Nature, reason, God

This book firmly integrates the philosophy of law with ethics, social theory and political philosophy. The author develops a sustained and substantive argument; it is not a review of other people's arguments but makes frequent illustrative and critical reference to classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary writers in ethics, social and political theory, and jurisprudence

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