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Finnis John

Reason in action: Collected essays: Volume I - Oxford Oxford University Press 2011 - 565p xi

Contents:
Introduction;
Part One Foundations;
1 Practical Reason's Foundations;
2 Discourse, Truth, and Friendship;
3 Scepticism's Self-Refutation;
4 Self-Refutation Revisited;
5 Bernard Williams on Truth's Values;
6 Reason, Authority, and Friendship;
7 Reason, Universality, and Moral Thought;
8 Objectivity and Content in Ethics;
9 Is and Ought in Aquinas;
Part Two Building on the Foundations;
10 Action's Most Ultimate End;
11 Prudence about Ends;
12 Moral Absolutes in Aristotle and Aquinas;
13 ‘Natural Law’;
14 Legal Reasoning as Practical Reason;
Part Three Public Reason and Unreason;
15 Commensuration and Public Reason;
16 ‘Public Reason’ and Moral Debate;
17 Reason, Passions, and Free Speech;
18 Freedom of Speech;
19 Pornography;
End Matter.



ISBN: 9780199580057

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Natural Law2. Ethics3. Practical Reason4. Law & Ethics

Dewey Class. No.: 340.112 / FIN - I