Natural law and natural rights / John Finnis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finnis, John.

Series:

Clarendon law series.

Clarendon law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law and ethics.

Physical Description:

xvi, 494 p.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely recognised as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an essential reference point for all students of the subject. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author responding to thirty years of comment, criticism, and further work in the field.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Abbreviations

Part One

I: EVALUATION AND THE DESCRIPTION OF LAW

I.1. The Formation of Concepts for Descriptive Social Science

I.2. Attention to Practical Point

I.3. Selection of Central Case and Focal Meaning

I.4. Selection of Viewpoint

I.5. The Theory of Natural Law

Notes

II: IMAGES AND OBJECTIONS

II.1. Natural Law and Theories of Natural Law

II.2. Legal Validity and Morality

II.3. The Variety of Human Opinions and Practices

II.4. The Illicit Inference from Facts to Norms

II.5. Hume and Clarke on 'Is' and 'Ought'

II.6. Clarke's Antecedents

II.7. The 'Perverted Faculty' Argument

II.8. Natural Law and the Existence and Will of God

Part Two

III: A BASIC FORM OF GOOD: KNOWLEDGE

III.1. An Example

III.2. From Inclination to Grasp of Value

III.3. Practical Principle and Participation in Value

III.4. The Self-evidence of the Good of Knowledge

III.5. 'Object of Desire' and Objectivity

III.6. Scepticism about this Basic Value is Indefensible

IV: THE OTHER BASIC VALUES

IV.1. Theoretical Studies of 'Universal' Values

IV.2. The Basic Forms of Human Good: A Practical Reflection

IV.3. An Exhaustive List?

IV.4. All Equally Fundamental

IV.5. Is Pleasure the Point of It All?

V: THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF PRACTICAL REASONABLENESS

V.1. The Good of Practical Reasonableness Structures Our Pursuit of Goods

V.2. A Coherent Plan of Life

V.3. No Arbitrary Preferences Amongst Values

V.4. No Arbitrary Preferences Amongst Persons

V.5. Detachment and Commitment

V.6. The (Limited) Relevance of Consequences: Efficiency, Within Reason

V.7. Respect for Every Basic Value in Every Act

V.8. The Requirements of the Common Good

V.9. Following One's Conscience

V.10. The Product of these Requirements: Morality.

Notes

VI: COMMUNITY, COMMUNITIES, AND COMMON GOOD

VI.1. Reasonableness and Self-interest

VI.2. Types of Unifying Relationship

VI.3. 'Business' Community and 'Play' Community

VI.4. Friendship

VI.5. 'Communism' and 'Subsidiarity'

VI.6. Complete Community

VI.7. The Existence of a Community

VI.8. The Common Good

VII: JUSTICE

VII.1. Elements of Justice

VII.2. General Justice

VII.3. Distributive Justice

VII.4. Criteria of Distributive Justice

VII.5. Commutative Justice

VII.6. Justice and the State

VII.7. An Example of Justice: Bankruptcy

VIII: RIGHTS

VIII.1. 'Natural', 'Human', or 'Moral' Rights

VIII.2. An Analysis of Rights-talk

VIII.3. Are Duties 'Prior to' Rights?

VIII.4. Rights and the Common Good

VIII.5. The Specification of Rights

VIII.6. Rights and Equality of Concern and Respect

VIII.7. Absolute Human Rights

IX: AUTHORITY

IX.1. The Need for Authority

IX.2. The Meanings of 'Authority'

IX.3. Formation of Conventions or Customary Rules

IX.4. The Authority of Rulers

IX.5. 'Bound By Their Own Rules'?

X: LAW

X.1. Law and Coercion

X.2. Unjust Punishment

X.3. The Main Features of Legal Order

X.4. The Rule of Law

X.5. Limits of the Rule of Law

X.6. A Definition of Law

X.7. Derivation of 'Positive' from 'Natural' Law

XI: OBLIGATION

XI.1. 'Obligation', 'Ought', and Rational Necessity

XI.2. Promissory Obligation

XI.3. Variable and Invariant Obligatory Force

XI.4. 'Legally Obligatory': the Legal Sense and the Moral Sense

XI.5. Contractual Obligation in Law: Performance or Compensation?

XI.6. Legal Obligation in the Moral Sense: Performance or Submission to Penalty?

XI.7. Obligation and Legislative Will.

XI.8. 'Reason' and 'Will' in Decision, Legislation, and Compliance with Law

XI.9. Moral Obligation and God's Will

XII UNJUST LAWS

XII.1. A Subordinate Concern of Natural Law Theory

XII.2. Types of Injustice in Law

XII.3. Effects of Injustice on Obligation

XII.4. 'Lex Injusta Non Est Lex'

Part Three

XIII: NATURE, REASON, GOD

XIII.1. Further Questions about the Point of Human Existence

XIII.2. Orders, Disorders, and the Explanation of Existence

XIII.3. Divine Nature and 'Eternal Law': Speculation and Revelation

XIII.4. Natural Law as 'Participation of Eternal Law'

XIII.5. Concluding Reflections on the Point and Force of Practical Reasonableness

Postscript

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [480]-483) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-102154-7

1-283-29975-5

9786613299758

0-19-161665-6

OCLC:

760886285