Human Rights and Common Good

Collected Essays Volume III

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ID8092613
AuthorsJohn Finnis (Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages429
Publication date2011-04-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHuman rights and common good (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580071.001.0001
OpenAlexW1584457273
Open LibraryOL24907409M
ISBN9780199580071
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited61

This volume collects twenty-two published and unpublished chapters on a variety of topics related directly to human rights, justice, and the common good. The first nine date from 1970 through to 2007. They begin with a study — in dialectic with Dworkin's earlier lecture on the same themes — of the bearing of contemporary legal and political theory on the incorporation of a declaration of rights and freedoms in British law. There follow chapters on place of rights, and of duties to oneself, in Kant's moral and legal theory and some contemporary interpreters of Kant; on the application classical conceptions of distributive justice to modern problems; on the emergence of the ideal of government limited by, inter alia, respect for human rights, and contemporary distortions of the ideal that are proposed by Rawls, Dworkin, and followers of theirs (not least in relation to marriage); on the place of civic virtues and respect for diverse persons in constitutional order; and two chapters on the great question of migration rights and the legitimacy of national boundaries preventing free and equal migration. Part Two groups three chapters on the justice of punishment, concluding with the mature statement of retribution's place as punishment's formative justifying aim, in engagement especially with Nietzsche's ‘genealogy of morals’. Part Three surveys just way theory in its historic development and current shape. Parts Four, Five, and Six each group three chapters: on autonomy, justice, and euthanasia; on autonomy, justice, and human reproduction; and on marriage in its relation to justice and the common good

Autonomy · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Human rights · Ideal (ethics · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Retributive justice · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Common good · Law · Philosophy · Religion and law

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