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This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to fundamental 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 A Theory of Justice, foundational discussions of migration rights, national boundaries, and the rights of non-citizens, and a challenging paper on virtue and the constitution. The volume then focuses on central problems in modern political communities, including 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, Nussbaum and Koppelman on same-sex relations, and Dummett and Weithman on open borders. The volume's previously unpublished papers include a fresh statement of a new grounding for the morality of sex, a surprising reading of C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man on genetic control and contraception, and an introduction focussing on the ultimate basis of equality and human rights.

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Author:   John Finnis (Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.806kg
ISBN:  

9780199580071

ISBN 10:   0199580073
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   07 April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Human Rights and Common Good: General Theory 1: Human Rights and Their Enforcement 2: Duties to Oneself in Kant 3: Rawls's A Theory of Justice 4: Distributive Justice and the Bottom Line 5: Limited Government 6: Virtue and the Constitution 7: Migration Rights 8: Boundaries 9: Nationality and Alienage Justice and Punishment 10: Hart's Philosophy of Punishment 11: The Restoration of Retribution 12: Retribution: Punishment's Formative Aim War and Justice 13: War and Peace in the Natural Law Tradition Autonomy, Euthanasia, and Justice 14: Euthanasia and Justice 15: Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life 16: Euthanasia and the Law Autonomy, IVF, Abortion, and Justice 17: CS Lewis and Test-tube Babies 18: The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion 19: Justice for Mother and Child Marriage, Justice, and the Common Good 20: Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good 21: Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation' 22: Sex and Marriage: Some Myths and Reasons Bibliography of the Works of John Finnis

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John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of University College. He is the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.

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