Reason in Action - Collected Essays

Zusatztext These five volumes make valuable contributions across a large range of philosophical topics and moral and legal questions, and offer much that merits consideration to scholars in several disciplines. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Reason in Action collects John Finnis's work on practical reason and moral philosophy. Ranging from foundational issues of meta-ethics to modern ethical debates! the essays trace the emergence and development of Finnis's new classical theory of natural law through close engagement with a broad range of contemporary thinkers and problems. Zusammenfassung Reason in Action collects John Finnis's work on practical reason and moral philosophy. Ranging from foundational issues of meta-ethics to modern ethical debates, the essays trace the emergence and development of his new classical theory of natural law through close engagement with a broad range of contemporary thinkers and problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Foundations; 1: Practical Reason's Foundations; 2: Discourse! Truth! and Friendship; 3: Scepticism's Self-refutation; 4: Self-refutation Revisited; 5: Bernard Williams on Truth's Values; 6: Reason! Authority! and Friendship; 7: Reason! Universality! and Moral Thought; 8: Objectivity and Content in Ethics; 9: Is and Ought in Aquinas; Building on the Foundations; 10: Action's Most Ultimate End; 11: Prudence about Ends; 12: Moral Absolutes in Aristotle and Aquinas; 13: "Natural Law"; 14: Legal Reasoning as Practical Reason; Public Reason and Unreason; 15: Commensuration and Public Reason; 16: "Public Reason" and Moral Debate; 17: Reason! Passions! and Free Speech; 18: Freedom of Speech; 19: Pornography

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• Authors: John Finnis, John (Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame) Finnis, Finnis John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2011
• EAN: 9780199580057
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958005-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Collected Essays; Collected Essays of John Finnis; Collected Essays of John Finni; Collected Essays of John Finnis; Collected Essays; Collected Essays of John Finni
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Philosophy, Legal Reference / Law Profession, LAW / Natural Law, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law