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  1. (1 other version)Natural Law and Natural Rights.John Finnis - 1979 - New York: Oxford University Press UK.
    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.
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  2. Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory.John Finnis - 1998 - Oxford University Press.
    This launch volume in the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents a critical examination of Aquinas' thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with an assessment of his central ideas and arguments. John Finnis presents a richly-documented critical review of Aquinas's thought on morality, politics, law, and method in social science. Unique in his coverage of Aquinas's primary and secondary texts and his own vigorous argumentation on many themes, the author focuses on the philosophy in (...)
     
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  3. Fundamentals of ethics.John Finnis - 1983 - Clarendon Press.
    The main theme of this book is the challenge to ethics from philosophical scepticism and from contemporary forms of consequentialism.
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  4. The rights and wrongs of abortion: A reply to Judith Thomson.John Finnis - 1973 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 (2):117-145.
  5. Nuclear Deterrence, Morality, and Realism.John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle & Germain Gabriel Grisez - 1987 - Clarendon Press.
    Nuclear deterrence requires objective ethical analysis. In providing it, the authors face realities - the Soviet threat, possible nuclear holocaust, strategic imperatives - but they also unmask moral evasions - deterrence cannot be bluff, pure counterforce, the lesser evil, or a step towards disarmament. They conclude that the deterrent is unjustifiable and examine the new question of conscience that this raises for everyone.
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    Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth (Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul II Institute).John Finnis - 1991 - CUA Press.
    Moral Absolutes sets forth a vigorous but careful critique of much recent work in moral theology. It is illustrated with examples from the most controversial aspects of Christian moral doctrine, and a frank account is given of the roots of the upheaval in Roman Catholic moral theology in and after the 1960s.
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  7. Law, Morality, and "Sexual Orientation".John Finnis - 1995 - Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 9 (1):11-40.
  8. «Direct» and «indirect»: A reply to critics of our action theory.John Finnis, Germain Grisez & Joseph Boyle - 2001 - The Thomist 65 (1):1-44.
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  9. Law as Co-ordination.John Finnis - 1989 - Ratio Juris 2 (1):97-104.
    The concept of co‐ordination problems helps solve the problem of authority and obligation in legal theory, but only if the concept is carefully distinguished from the game‐theoretical concept of co‐ordination problems and their solutions. After explaining the game‐theoretical concept, the author defends its application to legal theory by reviewing the exchange he has had with Joseph Raz about the authority of law. Extending that debate, he argues that criticisms from Raz and others miss the point of the co‐ordination thesis; its (...)
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    Reason in action.John Finnis - 2011 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The essays in the volume range from foundational issues of meta-ethics to the practical application of natural law theory to ethical problems such as nuclear ...
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  11. (4 other versions)Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism.John Finnis, Joseph M. Boyle & Germain Grisez - 1988 - The Personalist Forum 4 (1):44-46.
     
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  12. (2 other versions)Natural Law: The Classical Tradition.John Finnis - 2002 - In Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Natural law.John Finnis (ed.) - 1991 - New York, NY: New York University Press, Reference Collection.
    This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.
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  14. Law and What I Truly Should Decide.John Finnis - 2003 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 48 (1):107-129.
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  15. The Restoration of Retribution.John Finnis - 1972 - Analysis 32 (4):131 - 135.
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  16. Natural law theories.John Finnis - unknown - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Intention and side effects.John Finnis & Elizabeth Anscombe - 2013 - In John Keown & Robert P. George (eds.), Reason, morality, and law: the philosophy of John Finnis. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 93.
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    Religion and public reasons.John Finnis - 2011 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The essays in Religion and Public Reasons seek to argue for, and illustrate, a central element of John Finnis' theory of natural law: that the main tenets of ...
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  19. On reason and authority in law's empire.John Finnis - 1987 - Law and Philosophy 6 (3):357 - 380.
  20. Is Natural Law Theory Compatible with Limited Government?John Finnis - 1996 - In Robert P. George (ed.), Natural law, liberalism, and morality: contemporary essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    “Every Marital Act Ought to be Open to New Life”: Toward a Clearer Understanding.Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis & William E. May - 1988 - The Thomist 52 (3):365-426.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:"EVERY MARITAL ACT OUGHT TO BE OPEN TO NEW LIFE'': TOWARD A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING I. INTRODUCTION NE FREQUENTLY encounters misinterpretations of the statement " Every marital act ought to be open to new life " and similar statements in recent Catholic teaching concerning contraception.1 There are two common misinterpretations. One is: No couple may engage in marital intercourse without the intention to procreate. The other is: No couple may (...)
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    Marriage.John Finnis - 2008 - The Monist 91 (3-4):388-406.
  23. Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas.John I. Jenkins & John Finnis - 2000 - Philosophical Quarterly 50 (198):117-120.
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    Object and Intention in Moral Judgments According to Aquinas.John Finnis - 1991 - The Thomist 55 (1):1-27.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:OBJECT AND INTENTION IN MORAL JUDGMENTS ACCORDING TO AQUINAS JOHN FINNIS U'flkueTBity Oollege Unwersity of Oa:ford INTENTION IS OF END, choice is of means. A human aict ~s specified by (and s? is co.rrect:ly describe~ in terms of) its end. A human act IS specified by (and so Is correctly described in terms of) its object. An a:ct which is bad by reason of its object cannot be justified (...)
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  25. Natural Law: The Classical Theory.John Finnis - 2002 - In Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Corporate Persons.Roger Scruton & John Finnis - 1989 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 63 (1):239 - 274.
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    Reflections and Responses.John Finnis - 2013 - In John Keown & Robert P. George (eds.), Reason, morality, and law: the philosophy of John Finnis. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 459.
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  28. Aquinas' moral, political, and legal philosophy.John Finnis - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Philosophy of law.John Finnis - 2011 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This volume of his Collected Essays shows the full range and power of his contributions to the philosophy of law.
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    Capacity, harm and experience in the life of persons as equals.John Finnis - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (5):281-283.
    This paper identifies and contests the thesis it takes to be the central premise of Giubilini and Minerva, ‘Why should the baby live?’, namely that rights, subjecthood and personhood have as a necessary condition that the undergoing of a harm be experienced. That thesis entails the repugnant or absurd conclusion that we do not have the right not to be killed in our sleep. The conclusion can be avoided by adding some premise or qualification about actual capacities for experience of (...)
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  31. The nature of law.John Finnis - 2020 - In John Tasioulas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Absolute Rights: Some Problems Illustrated.John Finnis - 2016 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 61 (2):195-215.
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    Subsidiarity’s Roots and History: Some Observations.John Finnis - 2016 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 61 (1):133-141.
    Subsidiarity, i.e., “the principle of subsidiarity,” i.e., “the principle of subsidiary function/responsibility,” i.e., the principle that it is unjust for a higher authority to usurp the self-governing authority that lower authorities, acting in the service of their own members, rightly have over those members, is a presumptive and defeasible, not an absolute, principle. But it excludes any general policy or aim of assuming the control or managerial direction of lower groups. Its deepest rationale is the intrinsic desirability of self-direction, a (...)
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    Natural Law Lecture 2003: Law and What I Truly Should Decide.John Finnis - 2003 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 48 (1):107-130.
  35. “The thing I am”: Personal identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare.John Finnis - 2005 - Social Philosophy and Policy 22 (2):250-282.
    The four kinds of explanation identified by Aquinas at the beginning of his commentary on Aristotle's Ethics are deployed to show that the identity of the human person is sui generis and mysterious, even though each of its elements is more or less readily accessible to our understanding. The essay attends particularly to the explorations by Aquinas and, with different techniques, by Shakespeare of the experience and understanding of one's lasting presence to oneself as one and the same bodily and (...)
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    Natural Law theory: Its past and its present.John Finnis - 2012 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 57 (1):81-101.
    The past in which theory of this kind had its origins is notably similar to the present. For this is theory–practical theory–which articulates a critique of critiques, and the critiques it criticizes, rejects and replaces have much in common whether one looks at them in their fifth century B.C. Hellenic (Sophistic) or their modern (Enlightenment, Nietzschean or postmodern) forms.
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  37. Intention in tort law.John Finnis - 1995 - In David G. Owen (ed.), Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law. Oxford University Press. pp. 229--47.
     
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    Natural Law and the Ethics of Discourse.John Finnis - 1999 - Ratio Juris 12 (4):354-373.
    This essay argues that Plato's critical analysis of the ethics of discourse is superior to Habermas', and more generally that Habermas has no sufficient reason to propose or suppose the philosophical superiority of “modernity.” The failure of Hume and Kant and much modern philosophy to understand the concept and content of reasons for action underlies Habermas' attempted distinction between ethics and morality, and Rawls' concept of public reason. A proper study of discourse also yields a metaphysics of the person, and (...)
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  39. Aquinas and natural law jurisprudence.John Finnis - 2017 - In George Duke & Robert P. George (eds.), The Cambridge companion to natural law jurisprudence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  40. Equality and Differences.John Finnis - 2012 - Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics 2 (1):Article 1.
    Fifty years ago this year a legal practitioner turned military intelligencer turned philosopher, Herbert Hart, published The Concept of Law, still deservedly best-seller in thought about law. It presents law, especially common law and constitutionally ordered systems such as ours, as a social reality which results from the sharing of ideas and making of decisions that, for good or evil, establish rules of law which are what they are, whether just or unjust. But right at its centre is a chapter (...)
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    Grounds of law and legal theory: A response: John Finnis.John Finnis - 2007 - Legal Theory 13 (3-4):315-344.
    Linking theses of Plato, Wittgenstein, and Weber, section I argues that identification of central cases and settling of focal meanings depend upon the theorist's purpose and, in the case of theory about human affairs—theory adequately attentive to the four irreducible orders in which human persons live and act—upon the purposes for which we intelligibly and intelligently act. Among these purposes, primacy is to be accorded to purposes which are, as best the theorist can judge, reasonable and fit to be adopted (...)
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    On Hart's ways : law as reason and as fact.John Finnis - 2007 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 52 (1):25-53.
    This address at the Hart Centenary Conference in Cambridge in July 2007 reflects on foundational elements in Hart's method in legal philosophy. It argues that his understanding of what it is to adopt an internal point of view was flawed by (a) inattention to the difference between descriptive history (or biography or detection) and descriptive general theory of human affairs, (b) inattention to practical reason as argument from premises, some factual but others normative (evaluative) in their content, and (c) relative (...)
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  43. The ethics of war and peace in the catholic natural law tradition.John Finnis - 2007 - In John Aloysius Coleman (ed.), Christian Political Ethics. Princeton University Press.
  44. Natural law and unnatural acts.John M. Finnis & D. Phil - 1970 - Heythrop Journal 11 (4):365–387.
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    Legge naturale e diritti naturali.John Finnis & Francesco Viola - 1996
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  46. Beyond the Encyclical.John Finnis - 1994 - In John Wilkins (ed.), Considering Veritatis splendor. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press. pp. 75.
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    Natural Law and the "Is"-"Ought" Question: An Invitation to Professor Veatch.John M. Finnis - unknown
    This Article invites Professor Henry Veatch to consider some of Finnis' previous work. Finnis asserts that his work presents "serious questions" for those who interpret Aristotle and Acquinas in the way the Veatch does and invites Veatch to respond.
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    Practical Reasoning, Human Goods and the End of Man.John Finnis - 1984 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58:23-36.
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  49. Reason, Faith and Homosexual Acts.John Finnis - 2001 - Catholic Social Science Review 6:61-69.
    Discusses Catholic teaching about homosexuality. Explains the philosophical rationale for that teaching. Argues that homosexual activity is wrong, along with all other non-marital sexual activity, because it undermines the goods of marriage.
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    Its Past and Its Present.John Finnis - 2012 - In Andrei Marmor (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law. New York , NY: Routledge.
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