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    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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    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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    and political philosophers, including Brian Barry, Ronald Dworkin, John Finnis, John Gardner, Kent Greenawalt, Peter Hacker, David Hodgson, Neil MacCormick...
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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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    (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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Dworkin (Magdalen) John Eekelaar (University) Richard Epstein (Oriel) Malcolm Evans (Regent's Park) John Finnis (University) Owen M. Fiss John Gardner (New...
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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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