Table of Contents
Editors' Preface
Introduction: The Achievement of John Finnis, Robert P. George
Reasons, Goods, and Principles
1. Value: A Menu of Questions, Joseph Raz
2. Finnis on Well-being, Roger Crisp
3. Reasoning about the Human Good, and the Role of the Public Philosopher, John Haldane
4. On the Most Fundamental Principle of Morality, Joseph Boyle
5. What is Natural Law Like?, Jeremy Waldron
Intentions in Action
6. Intention and Side-effects: John Finnis and Elizabeth Anscombe, Luke Gormally
7. Intention and Side-effects: The mens rea for Murder, Anthony Kenny
8. John Finnis on Thomas Aquinas on Human Action, Kevin L. Flannery SJ
9. On Moral Philosophy and Kinds of Human Actions, Cristobel Orrego
Justice, Rights, and Wrongdoing
10. Finnis on Justice, John Gardner
11. Retributivism in the Spirit of Finnis, Matthew H. Kramer
12. The Nature of Limited Government, Leslie Green
13. Pure Perfectionism and the Limits of Paternalism, Christopher Tollefsen
14. "Lawful mercy" in Measure for Measure, Jacqueline Tasioulas and John Tasioulas
15. The Basis for Being a Subject of Rights: The Natural Law Position, Patrick Lee
16. Constitutional and Other Persons, Gerard V. Bradley
17. Bioethics After Finnis, Anthony Fisher OP
18. A New Father for the Law and Ethics of Medicine, John Keown
Philosophy of Law
19. Value, Practice and Idea, N E Simmonds
20. The Irony of Law, Timothy Endicott
21. Ideas of Easy Virtue, Timothy Macklem
22. Law and its Theory: a Question of Priorities, Julie Dickson
23. Finnis on Legal and Moral Obligation, Maris Kopcke Tinture
24. Constitutional Principle in the Laws of the Commonwealth, Richard Ekins
25. Intention and the Allocation of Risk, Neil M. Gorsuch
Philosophy, Religion, and Public Reasons
26. The Right to Religious Liberty and the Coercion of Belief: A Note on Dignitatis Humanae, Thomas Pink
27. Natural Law and the Transcendent Source of Human Fulfillment, Germain Grisez
Reflections and Responses
28. Responses, John Finnis
Bibliography of the Published Works of John Finnis