Natural law and natural rights /

Finnis, John,

Natural law and natural rights / by John Finnis. - Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980. - xv, 425 pages ; 22 cm - Clarendon law series . - Clarendon law series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one -- Evaluation and the description of law -- Images and objections -- Part two -- A basic form of good: knowledge -- The other basic values -- The basic requirements of practical resonableness -- Community, communities, and common good -- Justice -- Rights -- Authority -- Law -- Obligation -- Unjust laws -- Part three -- Nature, reason, God.

This book firmly integrates the philosophy of law with ethics, social theory and political philosophy. The author develops a sustained and substantive argument; it is not a review of other people's arguments but makes frequent illustrative and critical reference to classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary writers in ethics, social and political theory, and jurisprudence.

0198760981 9780198760986 0198761104 9780198761105

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Droit et morale.
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K460 / .F56 1980

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