arrest and brought her the news "that a friend, John Finnis" had nominated her for the prize. Finnis is an author of several philosophical works. His...
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Jurisprudence (section John Finnis)
right or wrong can vary according to the interests one is focused on. John Finnis, one of the most important of modern natural lawyers, has argued that...
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Finnis is an English language surname. Notable people with this name include: Benjamin Finnis (born 1937), British modern pentathlete Dorothy Kell Finnis...
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John Finnis (3 December 1802 – 13 August 1872), generally known as "Captain Finnis", was a seaman who is remembered for his association with Charles Sturt...
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Natural Law and Natural Rights (category Books by John Finnis)
edition 2011) is a book by John Finnis first published by Oxford University Press, as part of the Clarendon Law Series. Finnis develops a philosophy of...
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century philosophers of law including Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Joseph Raz, and John Finnis. Legal realism, which asserts that law is the product of...
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assisted suicide and was written under the supervision of legal philosopher John Finnis. He was a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle, Justice Byron White...
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David Brink, John McDowell, Peter Railton, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Michael Smith, Terence Cuneo, Russ Shafer-Landau, G. E. Moore, John Finnis, Richard Boyd...
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This view is strongly associated with natural law theorists, including John Finnis and Lon Fuller. Throughout history, philosophical and religious writers...
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and political philosophers, including Brian Barry, Ronald Dworkin, John Finnis, John Gardner, Kent Greenawalt, Peter Hacker, David Hodgson, Neil MacCormick...
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(1902-2001) David Braine John C. Cahalan (independent scholar) Brian Davies (Fordham) Gabriele De Anna (Udine) (Bamberg) Edward Feser John Finnis (Oxford) Peter...
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Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy, by John Finnis, 2005. Natural Law Theories, by John Finnis, 2007. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry...
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centre.) In 1838 he, with Giles Strangways, a Mr McLeod, and Captain John Finnis, herded cattle overland from Sydney to Adelaide, on the way proving that...
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Oxford, George studied the philosophy of law under the supervision of John Finnis and Joseph Raz and served as a lecturer in jurisprudence at the college...
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secret Catholic sympathiser. The theory was revived and developed by John Finnis and Patrick Martin in 2003. It has been extended by Martin Dodwell to...
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these judgments will become a 'source' of law.” John Austin Ronald Dworkin Duncan Kennedy John Finnis Jeremy Bentham Max Weber Hans Kelsen Carl Schmitt...
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Natural rights and legal rights (section John Locke)
rights" is contrasted with "artificial" rather than referring to nature. John Finnis, for example, contends that natural law and natural rights are derived...
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of Oxford, Principia Advisory, Carnegie Council Thesis Self-Defence and War (1997) Doctoral advisors Jonathan Glover, John Finnis, John Randolph Lucas...
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it hung on the scaffold before he was also executed, is the turtle. John Finnis and Patrick Martin argued more recently that St. Anne Line is the phoenix...
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Waldron, A. V. Dicey, William Blackstone, John Gardner, Robert A. Gorman, Timothy Endicott, Peter Birks, John Finnis, Andrew Ashworth, Joseph Raz, Paul Craig...
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and ethical issues related to assisted suicide and euthanasia under John Finnis, an Australian legal scholar opposed to assisted suicide. In The Future...
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Gospel of Peter, later in Matthew, and is completed in Justin Martyr." John Finnis has recently argued that the Epistle may have been written around the...
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Catholic thought based on natural law, developed by Germain Grisez and John Finnis from the 1960s. Lee, Patrick (2019). "The New Natural Law Theory". The...
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theory) by philosophers such as Jacques Maritain, Elizabeth Anscombe and John Finnis. Other scholars such as Robert L. Holmes cited a presumptive moral imperative...
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Association and two other websites: footnotes 7 p. 22 and 10, p. 24: John Finnis, Terminating Treaty-based UK Rights, 26 October 2016; and Terminating...
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critics of judicial activism in the United Kingdom are Richard Ekins, John Finnis, and Sir Stephen Laws. Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project, headed...
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Dickson, John Gardner, Leslie Green, J. W. Harris, Tony Honoré, Joseph Raz, Richard Tur, and from a critical viewpoint, in that of John Finnis. Kelsen's...
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frequently seen as requiring natural law for their existence. The philosopher John Finnis argues that human rights are justifiable on the grounds of their instrumental...
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Joseph A. Komonchak (1939–) John Finnis (1940–) Bas van Fraassen (1941–) Angelo Scola (1941–) Elizabeth A. Johnson (1941–) John P. Meier (1942–) Jacek Salij...
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Politics (Harvard University Press 1979 ISBN 978-0-674-10325-2), p. 154 John Finnis, Religion and Public Reasons(Oxford University Press 2011 ISBN 978-0-19-958009-5)...
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