Patrick McKinley Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4976295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick McKinley Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick McKinley |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Law, Arizona State University, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1676-8984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maritain and America
A few years ago, Paul Sigmund, a distinguished professor of political science at Princeton and an expert on the thought of Jacques Maritain, asked whether people would still be reading Maritain in a hundred years. He answered yes, though with the qualification that people would likely be reading Maritain to learn of his historical role in the transformation of Catholic sociopolitical thought and activity in the twentieth century, not because of t…
Asking the Right Questions
“We cannot endow people with intelligence. Intelligence fundamentally is this capacity to ask questions, and this capacity is entirely from nature.” My concern here is the rule of law, in all its operations . I select the unexpected word “operations” in order to telegraph a difference from much other natural law jurisprudence. The rule of law is not just a battery of operations; however, failure to appreciate the place of operations in the rule o…
On What Sin (and Grace) Can Teach Crime
In the Catholic moral tradition, what is expected of the person is that he inform and follow conscience; the person becomes morally perfected by responding to his God-given desire for the real and the good. A criminal law shaped by Catholic principles, therefore, would sanction the criminalization not only of (some) intentional wrongs but also of (some) negligent wrongs; it would understand negligence, however, as the person's failure to do his p…
Arguing for Human Equality
There is nothing that I would hold to more dearly in our past than the language of the Declaration of Independence, ‘all men are created equal.’ As Abraham Lincoln argued, this is in an important sense the foundation of our Constitution. The circumstance that the social facts of our world, then and now, are hideously inconsistent with this promise or ideal simply makes it all the more important. Yet upon what does this value of equality rest? Is …
A Conscience as Large as the World
By Nature Equal
Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars-including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton-describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. T…
By Nature Equal
What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature provides them the same access to moral self-perfection. Plausibly, in the authors' view, such access stems …
The Standard (Of Review) in Judge Noonan's Judging
Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars-including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton-describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. T…
The Standard (Of Review) in Judge Noonan's Judging
By Nature Equal
What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature provides them the same access to moral self-perfection. Plausibly, in the authors' view, such access stems …
A Conscience as Large as the World
By Nature Equal
Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
This book explores for the first time the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Eminent legal scholars-including Stephen Carter, Thomas Shaffer, Elizabeth Mensch, Gerard Bradley, and Marci Hamilton-describe how various Christian traditions, including the Catholic, Calvinist, Anabaptist, and Lutheran traditions, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and human striving. T…
Arguing for Human Equality
There is nothing that I would hold to more dearly in our past than the language of the Declaration of Independence, ‘all men are created equal.’ As Abraham Lincoln argued, this is in an important sense the foundation of our Constitution. The circumstance that the social facts of our world, then and now, are hideously inconsistent with this promise or ideal simply makes it all the more important. Yet upon what does this value of equality rest? Is …
On What Sin (and Grace) Can Teach Crime
In the Catholic moral tradition, what is expected of the person is that he inform and follow conscience; the person becomes morally perfected by responding to his God-given desire for the real and the good. A criminal law shaped by Catholic principles, therefore, would sanction the criminalization not only of (some) intentional wrongs but also of (some) negligent wrongs; it would understand negligence, however, as the person's failure to do his p…
Asking the Right Questions
“We cannot endow people with intelligence. Intelligence fundamentally is this capacity to ask questions, and this capacity is entirely from nature.” My concern here is the rule of law, in all its operations . I select the unexpected word “operations” in order to telegraph a difference from much other natural law jurisprudence. The rule of law is not just a battery of operations; however, failure to appreciate the place of operations in the rule o…
Maritain and America
A few years ago, Paul Sigmund, a distinguished professor of political science at Princeton and an expert on the thought of Jacques Maritain, asked whether people would still be reading Maritain in a hundred years. He answered yes, though with the qualification that people would likely be reading Maritain to learn of his historical role in the transformation of Catholic sociopolitical thought and activity in the twentieth century, not because of t…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Conscience (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works)