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Human rights and common good : collected essays / John Finnis.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Collected essays ; volume IIIPublication details: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.Edition: Paperbook editionDescription: x, 432 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199689965
  • 0199689962
Other title:
  • Human rights & common good [Cover title]
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • K3240 .F56 2013
Contents:
PART ONE HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMMON GOOD: GENERAL THEORY, p.17 -- I. Human Rights and Their Enforcement (1985), p.19 -- 2. Duties to Oneselfin Kant (1987), p.47 -- 3. Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1973), p.72 -- 4. Distributive Justice and the Bottom Line (1979), p.76 -- 5. Limited Government (1996), p.83 -- 6. Virtue and the Constitution (2001), p.107 -- 7. Migration Rights (1992), p.116 -- 8. Boundaries (2003) 125 -- 9. Nationality and Alienage (2007), p.133 -- PART TWO. JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT, p.151 -- 10. Hart's Philosophy ofPunishment (1968), p.153 -- 11. The Restoration ofRetribution (1972), p.161 -- 12. Retribution: Punishment's Formative Aim (1999), p.167 -- PART THREE. WAR AND JUSTICE, p.181 -- 13. War and Peace in the Natural Law Tradition (1996), p.183 -- PART FOUR. AUTONOMY, EUTHANASIA, AND JUSTICE, p.209 -- 14. Euthanasia and Justice (1995), p.211 -- 15. Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life (1992), p.242 -- 16. Euthanasia and the Law (1998), p.251 -- PART FIVE. AUTONOMY, IVF, ABORTION, AND JUSTICE, p.271 -- 17. C.S. Lewis and Test-Tube Babies (1984), p.273 -- 18. The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion (1973), p.282 -- 19. Justice for Mother and Child (1993), p.307 -- PART SIX. MARRIAGE, JUSTICE, AND THE COMMON GOOD, p.315 -- 20. Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good (2008), p.317 -- 21. Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation' (1997), p.334 -- 22. Sex and Marriage: Some Myths and Reasons (1997), p.353
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"For the paperback edition the Index common to all volumes has been significantyl enhanced in its coverage of subjects --Preface."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-410) and index.

PART ONE HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMMON GOOD: GENERAL THEORY, p.17 -- I. Human Rights and Their Enforcement (1985), p.19 -- 2. Duties to Oneselfin Kant (1987), p.47 -- 3. Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1973), p.72 -- 4. Distributive Justice and the Bottom Line (1979), p.76 -- 5. Limited Government (1996), p.83 -- 6. Virtue and the Constitution (2001), p.107 -- 7. Migration Rights (1992), p.116 -- 8. Boundaries (2003) 125 -- 9. Nationality and Alienage (2007), p.133 -- PART TWO. JUSTICE AND PUNISHMENT, p.151 -- 10. Hart's Philosophy ofPunishment (1968), p.153 -- 11. The Restoration ofRetribution (1972), p.161 -- 12. Retribution: Punishment's Formative Aim (1999), p.167 -- PART THREE. WAR AND JUSTICE, p.181 -- 13. War and Peace in the Natural Law Tradition (1996), p.183 -- PART FOUR. AUTONOMY, EUTHANASIA, AND JUSTICE, p.209 -- 14. Euthanasia and Justice (1995), p.211 -- 15. Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life (1992), p.242 -- 16. Euthanasia and the Law (1998), p.251 -- PART FIVE. AUTONOMY, IVF, ABORTION, AND JUSTICE, p.271 -- 17. C.S. Lewis and Test-Tube Babies (1984), p.273 -- 18. The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion (1973), p.282 -- 19. Justice for Mother and Child (1993), p.307 -- PART SIX. MARRIAGE, JUSTICE, AND THE COMMON GOOD, p.315 -- 20. Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good (2008), p.317 -- 21. Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation' (1997), p.334 -- 22. Sex and Marriage: Some Myths and Reasons (1997), p.353

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