Christopher Tollefsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1201133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Tollefsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Tollefsen |
| SIGNATURE | TOLLEFSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
William C. Mattison III, Growing in Virtue
God, New Natural Law Theory, and Human Rights
Critics of the "New" Natural Law (NNL) theory have raised questions about the role of the divine in that theory. This paper considers that role in regard to its account of human rights: can the NNL account of human rights be sustained without a more or less explicit advertence to "the question of God's existence or nature or will"? It might seem that Finnis's "elaborate sketch" includes a full theory of human rights even prior to the introduction…
Reasons, Rights, and (Mis)readings
Christian Emden misreads the Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, as well as my own “Further Thoughts” about that document.1 His errors reveal what I believe is one of the biggest obstacles to the success of the report, namely, the unwillingness of its pre-announced opponents to read it with a mind open to its plain sense
Some Further Thoughts on the Nature, Scope, and Source of Human Rights
Our commission was asked to investigate fundamental human rights and to address confusions that have arisen concerning the nature, scope, and source of such rights. On each of these overlapping questions, we made important advances that are reflected in our report;1 yet further clarification and progress are possible. In what follows I offer some brief further reflections on these three topics
Aquinas’s Four Orders, Normativity, and Human Nature
Religious Perspectives on Human Suffering
Protecting Positive Claims of Conscience for Employees of Religious Institutions Threatens Religious Liberty
An important good for doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals could be described as that of "professional freedom." This is the good of being able to bring one's professional medical knowledge and one's commitments to the norms and values of the medical profession to bear on one's professional judgments and actions. This is, after all, one of the important aspects of being in a profession: professionals are not merely technicians per…
Basic Goods, Practical Insight, and External Reasons
Many basic goods theories hold the following two claims. First, the foundation of human action is in the practical grasp that all genuine agents have of the basic human goods, that is, in their grasp of basic opportunities for human flourishing.1 Different goods theories give somewhat different accounts of what these basic goods are, but the lists generally include human life and health, knowledge, excellence at work and play, friendship, integri…
Experience Machines, Dreams, and What Matters
Sidgwickian Objectivity and Ordinary Morality
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Sidgwickian Objectivity and Ordinary Morality
Experience Machines, Dreams, and What Matters
Basic Goods, Practical Insight, and External Reasons
Many basic goods theories hold the following two claims. First, the foundation of human action is in the practical grasp that all genuine agents have of the basic human goods, that is, in their grasp of basic opportunities for human flourishing.1 Different goods theories give somewhat different accounts of what these basic goods are, but the lists generally include human life and health, knowledge, excellence at work and play, friendship, integri…
Protecting Positive Claims of Conscience for Employees of Religious Institutions Threatens Religious Liberty
An important good for doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals could be described as that of "professional freedom." This is the good of being able to bring one's professional medical knowledge and one's commitments to the norms and values of the medical profession to bear on one's professional judgments and actions. This is, after all, one of the important aspects of being in a profession: professionals are not merely technicians per…
Religious Perspectives on Human Suffering
Aquinas’s Four Orders, Normativity, and Human Nature
Reasons, Rights, and (Mis)readings
Christian Emden misreads the Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, as well as my own “Further Thoughts” about that document.1 His errors reveal what I believe is one of the biggest obstacles to the success of the report, namely, the unwillingness of its pre-announced opponents to read it with a mind open to its plain sense
Some Further Thoughts on the Nature, Scope, and Source of Human Rights
Our commission was asked to investigate fundamental human rights and to address confusions that have arisen concerning the nature, scope, and source of such rights. On each of these overlapping questions, we made important advances that are reflected in our report;1 yet further clarification and progress are possible. In what follows I offer some brief further reflections on these three topics
God, New Natural Law Theory, and Human Rights
Critics of the "New" Natural Law (NNL) theory have raised questions about the role of the divine in that theory. This paper considers that role in regard to its account of human rights: can the NNL account of human rights be sustained without a more or less explicit advertence to "the question of God's existence or nature or will"? It might seem that Finnis's "elaborate sketch" includes a full theory of human rights even prior to the introduction…
William C. Mattison III, Growing in Virtue
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