First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the central issues of legal, moral, and political philosophy from Finnis's distinctive perspective. This new edi...
First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered generations of students and other readers a thorough grounding in the central issues of legal, moral, and political philosophy from Finnis's distinctive perspective. This new edition includes a substantial postscript by the author, in which he responds to thirty years of discussion, criticism and further work in the field to develop and refine the original theory. The book closely integrates the philosophy of law with ethics, social theory and political philosophy. The author develops a sustained and substantive argument; it is not a review of other people's arguments but makes frequent illustrative and critical reference to classical, modern, and contemporary writers in ethics, social and political theory, and jurisprudence. The preliminary First Part reviews a century of analytical jurisprudence to illustrate the dependence of every descriptive social science upon evaluations by the theorist. A fully critical basis for such evaluations is a theory of natural law. Standard contemporary objections to natural law theory are reviewed and shown to rest on serious misunderstandings. The Second Part develops in ten carefully structured chapters an account of: basic human goods and basic requirements of practical reasonableness, community and 'the common good'; justice; the logical structure of rights-talk; the bases of human rights, their specification and their limits; authority, and the formation of authoritative rules by non-authoritative persons and procedures; law, the Rule of Law, and the derivation of laws from the principles of practical reasonableness; the complex relation between legal and moral obligation; and the practical and theoretical problems created by unjust laws. A final Part develops a vigorous argument about the relation between 'natural law', 'natural theology' and 'revelation' - between moral concern and other ultimate questions.
And putting the secondary first, in the book's order of treatment, had the bad side effect of encouraging the myth (or déformation professionelle of believing) that the default position in jurisprudence or legal philosophy is legal positivism, and that anyone who upholds law's appropriate positivity is 'conceding' or 'admitting' something rightly affirmed by positivists—as if the loose cluster of positions labelled by textbooks 'positivism' were not (as it is) a latecomer to the philosophy of law, with not too many important discoveries to its name and a vast capacity and willingness to misread the philosophical tradition from which it emerged. (查看原文)
There are human goods/ requirements of practical reasonableness that can be secured only through the institutions of human law.The object of this book to identify those goods and those requirements of practical reasonableness.【3-1】
An evaluation of law as a type of social institution must be preceded by a value-free description and analysis of that institution as it exists in fact .No theorist can give a theoretical description and analysis of social facts without also participating in the work of evaluation.【3-2】
Social science - object - constituted by human actions, practices, habits, dispositions, and by human discourse.Ttwo dimensions- natural science / to understand - understand point.【3-3】
The conceptions of law are varied.Jurisprudence aspires to be more than a conjunction of lex... (查看原文)
今年是约翰·菲尼斯（John Finnis）的《自然法与自然权利》（Natural Law and Natural Rights）出版四十周年。此书虽是当代著作，但出版不久即无可争议地成了经典。我们甚至可以说，启蒙时代之后，最重要的自然法著作有且只有两本，一本是《自然法与自然权利》，另一本是《自然...
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Link: http://jiong.wykehamist.com/blog/2006/12/what-is-reasonableness.html 剑桥面试的时候，那个教授不断强调的一个词，是段法律条文中的“reasonable”。在John Finnis的Natural Law and Natural Rights里面，作者不断强调的一个关键词，也是“practical reasonableness...
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Could Self-Evidence Guarantee Objectivity of Basic Values? In Natural Law and Natural Right, John Finnis outlines basic values and principles as contents of his natural law theory. The principal characteristic of them is so-called self-evidence, through whi...
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约翰·菲尼斯 作者
理一分殊
新月
中国政法大学出版社2005版
大人
中国政法大学出版社2005版
Jiong
Oxford University Press, USA1980版
法妹儿
段天涯
0 有用 青灯烧古卷 2024-09-12 09:39:32 重庆
第十三章讲神学的部分没看，如果有需要再说。菲尼斯当然是很厉害的，后边的不少东西(权利，权威和义务那里)我觉得比学界说的要更重要。这才只是第一遍，具体后边再说吧。
0 有用 Kay 2024-11-22 23:15:03 美国
菲尼斯引入了一套“实践合理性的基本要求”作为调节从基本善到道德选择的中介机制。因为存在多种基本的没有等级或优先顺序的善，所以当人可以选择主张不同的价值时，必定存在一些原则来解决选择的问题。与功利主义相反，功利主义认为永远存在“最佳选项”。这种工具比起道义论的“反思性平衡”，甚至密尔的“伤害原则”来说还是太简单了。
0 有用 Vita Nova 2021-08-27 17:51:26
前几章很没劲，后几章(法律，权威，义务)很有收获。
8 有用 Blade King 2016-06-23 14:54:14
太难啃了，菲尼斯的文风真是不好懂，还好最后的后记拯救了不少。但确实很重要，非常有野心的理论，既是拒绝窄化的描述理论又是拒绝阿奎那之后的自然法传统。
0 有用 瑪嘎利特 2020-06-10 09:18:06
Finnis的实践理性跟Raz等人的实践理性完全不是一个路数，但也是一种很有意思的解读。