John Michael Finnis

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John Michael Finnis

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John Michael Finnis

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Bachelors Classics University of Adelaide
Bachelors Law University of Adelaide
PhD Law University of Oxford

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Natural Law and Natural Rights. (1980) (1076)
Practical Principles, Moral Truth, and Ultimate Ends (1987) (282)
On “The Critical Legal Studies Movement” (1985) (188)
Fundamentals of ethics (1985) (180)
Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (1998) (157)
Nuclear Deterrence, Morality, and Realism. (1992) (111)
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth (1991) (101)
Law, Morality, and "Sexual Orientation" (2014) (96)
Human rights and common good (2011) (81)
The rights and wrongs of abortion: a reply to Judith Thomson. (1973) (70)
Intention and Identity (2011) (56)
The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion (1974) (54)
The Good of Marriage and the Morality of Sexual Relations: Some Philosophical and Historical Observations (1997) (49)
Religion and public reasons (2011) (48)
Natural Law and Legal Reasoning (1990) (47)
Comparison of methods for visualizing blood on dark surfaces. (2013) (47)
Natural Law: The Classical Tradition (2004) (45)
Law and What I Truly Should Decide (2003) (40)
On the Incoherence of Legal Positivism (2000) (38)
Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good (2008) (35)
Euthanasia Examined: A philosophical case against euthanasia (1995) (33)
On reason and authority in Law's Empire (1987) (31)
Nationality, Alienage and Constitutional Principle (2008) (30)
Some Professorial Fallacies About Rights (1972) (29)
Absolute Rights: Some Problems Illustrated (2016) (29)
The Truth in Legal Positivism (1999) (29)
Intention and side effects (1991) (29)
REVOLUTIONS AND CONTINUITY OF LAW (2011) (27)
COMMENSURATION AND PUBLIC REASON (2011) (27)
Law as Co‐ordination (1989) (27)
The Basic Principles of Natural Law: A Reply to Ralph McInerny (1981) (26)
Natural Law and the Ethics of Discourse (1999) (25)
Natural Law and the "Is"-"Ought" Question: An Invitation to Professor Veatch (1982) (25)
Philosophy of Law (2011) (23)
Legal Enforcement of "Duties to Oneself": Kant vs. Neo-Kantians (1987) (23)
On Hart's Ways: Law as Reason and as Fact (2007) (23)
Bland: crossing the Rubicon? (1993) (21)
PRACTICAL REASON'S FOUNDATIONS (2011) (21)
Foundations of Practical Reason Revisited (2005) (21)
Liberalism and Natural Law Theory (1994) (21)
Reason in Action (2011) (21)
Personal Identity: “The Thing I Am”: Personal Identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare (2005) (20)
Is Natural Law Theory Compatible with Limited Government (2001) (20)
On the Practical Meaning of Secularism (1998) (19)
Grounding Human Rights in Natural Law (2015) (19)
Retribution: Punishment's Formative Aim (1999) (18)
Subsidiarity’s Roots and History: Some Observations (2016) (18)
Does Free Exercise of Religion Deserve Constitutional Mention (2009) (18)
THE PRIORITY OF PERSONS (2011) (17)
Religion and State: Some Main Issues and Sources (2006) (17)
Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally (2009) (16)
Law as Fact and as Reason for Action: A Response to Robert Alexy on Law's 'Ideal Dimension' (2014) (16)
Intention in Tort Law (1997) (15)
The restoration of retribution (1972) (15)
“Shameless acts” in Colorado: Abuse of scholarship in constitutional cases (1994) (15)
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT (2011) (14)
Object and Intention in Moral Judgments According to Aquinas (2017) (14)
GROUNDS OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY: A Response (2007) (14)
ANALOGICAL REASONING IN LAW (2011) (13)
Abortion and Health Care Ethics II (1994) (13)
Practical Reasoning, Human Goods and the End of Man (1984) (12)
The Priority of Persons Revisited (2013) (11)
Natural Law Theory: Its Past and its Present (2012) (11)
RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE IN PLURALIST SOCIETY (2011) (11)
Public Good: The Specifically Political Common Good in Aquinas (2017) (10)
CATHOLIC POSITIONS IN LIBERAL DEBATES (2011) (10)
LAW AS COORDINATION (2011) (10)
Equality and Differences (2011) (9)
Endorsing Discrimination between Faiths: A Case of Extreme Speech? (2008) (9)
Natural law and unnatural acts (1970) (9)
Reflections and Responses (2013) (9)
Separation of Powers in the Australian Constitution (1968) (8)
Euthanasia, morality, and law. (1998) (8)
The "Natural Law Tradition.". (1986) (8)
10. The Ethics of War and Peace in the Catholic Natural Law Tradition (2008) (8)
Aquinas on ius and Hart on Rights: A Response to Tierney (2002) (7)
The Authority Of Law In The Predicament Of Contemporary Social Theory (2017) (7)
Aquinas and Natural Law Jurisprudence (2017) (7)
Legal Theory and the Problem of Definition (1983) (7)
Public reason, abortion, and cloning. (1998) (6)
On 'Positivism' and 'Legal Rational Authority' (1985) (6)
Abortion and Legal Rationality (1970) (6)
Reason and Passion: The Constitutional Dialectic of Free Speech and Obscenity (1967) (6)
The "value of human life" and "the right to death": some reflections on Cruzan and Ronald Dworkin. (1993) (6)
A Response to Harel, Hope, and Schwartz (2013) (5)
Common Law Constraints: Whose Common Good Counts? (2008) (5)
ADJUDICATION AND LEGAL CHANGE (2011) (5)
Allocating Risks and Suffering: Some Hidden Traps (1990) (5)
LAW'S AUTHORITY AND SOCIAL THEORY'S PREDICAMENT (2011) (5)
The Secret Sharers: "Anthony Rivers" and the Appellant Controversy, 1601-2 (2006) (5)
Reason, Revelation, Universality and Particularity in Ethics (2008) (5)
LEGAL REASONING AS PRACTICAL REASON (2011) (5)
Law as Idea, Ideal and Duty (2010) (5)
Blackstone's Theoretical Intentions (1967) (5)
Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, Part I: Goddard Tyrwhitt, Martyr, 1580 (2002) (5)
Helping Enact Unjust Laws without Complicity in Injustice (2004) (4)
Collected Essays, v. II: Intention & Identity (2011) (4)
A GRAND TOUR OF LEGAL THEORY (2011) (4)
The Lords’ Eerie Swansong: A Note on R. (Purdy) v. Director of Public Prosecutions (2009) (4)
Seed maturity in Douglas Fir. (1950) (4)
Some fundamental evils in generating human embryos by cloning (2000) (4)
BERNARD WILLIAMS ON TRUTH'S VALUES (2011) (4)
“THE THING I AM”: PERSONAL IDENTITY IN AQUINAS AND SHAKESPEARE (2005) (4)
DESCRIBING LAW NORMATIVELY (2011) (4)
PERSONS AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS (2011) (4)
Judicial Power: Past, Present and Future (2016) (3)
Collected Essays, v. III: Human Rights & Common Good (2011) (3)
On 'Public Reason' (2006) (3)
Natural Law and the Regulation of Sexuality: A Critique (2016) (3)
A NOTE ON THE BUD COUNT METHOD OF FORECASTING CONE CROPS OF DOUGLAS FIR (1953) (3)
The Unconstitutionality of the Supreme Court's Prorogation Judgment, with Supplementary Notes (2020) (3)
Incoherence and Consequentialism (or Proportionalism): A Rejoinder (1990) (3)
LAW, UNIVERSALITY, AND SOCIAL IDENTITY (2011) (3)
H.L.A. Hart: A Twentieth-Century Oxford Political Philosopher (2009) (3)
Understanding values (2019) (3)
Natural Law and the "Is (2017) (2)
Grounds and preparations for the main thesis of "Veritatis Splendor" (2017) (2)
Economics, justice and the value of life: concluding remarks (1992) (2)
CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES (2011) (2)
Universality, Personal and Social Identity, and Law (2008) (2)
CHRISTIANITY AND WORLD ORDER (2011) (2)
Unjust Laws in a Democratic Society: Some Philosophical and Theological Reflections (1996) (2)
INTENTION IN DIRECT DISCRIMINATION (2011) (2)
Precommercial thinning with chemicals. (1970) (2)
RIGHTS: THEIR LOGIC RESTATED (2011) (2)
‘PUBLIC REASON’ AND MORAL DEBATE (2011) (2)
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth (Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul II Institute) (2012) (2)
ECONOMICS, JUSTICE, AND THE VALUE OF LIFE (2011) (2)
The Identity of ‘Anthony Rivers’ (2002) (2)
Natural Law and Legal Reasoning Natural Law (1990) (2)
H.L.A. Hart: A Twentieth-Century Oxford Political Philosopher: Reflections by a Former Student and Colleague (2009) (2)
MORAL ABSOLUTES IN ARISTOTLE AND AQUINAS (2011) (2)
Collected Essays, v. IV: Philosophy of Law (2011) (2)
HELL AND HOPE (2011) (2)
Euthanasia Examined: Misunderstanding the case against euthanasia: response to Harris's first reply (1995) (2)
DISCOURSE, TRUTH, AND FRIENDSHIP (2011) (2)
Equality and Religious Liberty (2016) (2)
SEX AND MARRIAGE: SOME MYTHS AND REASONS (2011) (2)
Freedom, Benefit and Understanding: Reflections on Laurence Claus's Critique of Authority (2014) (2)
Coexisting Normative Orders? Yes, but No (2012) (2)
Self-referential (or Performative) Inconsistency: Its Significance for Truth (2004) (1)
Developments in Judicial Jurisprudence (1962) (1)
REASON, AUTHORITY, AND FRIENDSHIP (2011) (1)
The Coxford Lecture Patriation and Patrimony: The Path to the Charter (2015) (1)
ACTION'S MOST ULTIMATE END (2011) (1)
DUTIES TO ONESELF IN KANT (2011) (1)
Natural law theory (2012) (1)
Truth and Complexity: Notes on Music and Liberalism (2017) (1)
BRAIN DEATH AND PETER SINGER (2011) (1)
THE ‘CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE’ (2011) (1)
POSITIVISM AND ‘AUTHORITY’ (2011) (1)
Virtue and the Constitution of the United States (2001) (1)
Where the Pell judgment went fatally wrong (2019) (1)
PERSONAL IDENTITY IN AQUINAS AND SHAKESPEARE (2011) (1)
Finnis and His Critics (1)
The Ethics of War and Peace in the Catholic Natural Law Tradition (2020) (1)
PHILOSOPHY AND GOD'S NATURE: SECOND THOUGHTS (2011) (1)
SECULARISM AND ‘THE CULTURE OF DEATH’ (2011) (1)
SCEPTICISM'S SELF-REFUTATION (2011) (1)
Illuminating the benefits and limitations of forensic light sources. (2023) (1)
Direct seeding of Douglas fir with special reference to survival (1957) (1)
ON RETRANSLATING HUMANAE VITAE (2011) (1)
NATIONALITY AND ALIENAGE (2011) (1)
Good of Marriage and the Morality of Sexual Relations (1997) (1)
EUTHANASIA AND JUSTICE (2011) (1)
An Oxford Play Festival in February 1582 (2003) (1)
PRUDENCE ABOUT ENDS (2011) (1)
Indictability of Early Abortion c. 1868 (2021) (1)
What is the Common Good, and Why Does It Concern the Client's Lawyer? (1999) (1)
CONSCIENCE IN THE LETTER TO THE DUKE OF NORFOLK (2011) (1)
Reason, Faith and Homosexual Acts (2001) (1)
Discrimination Between Religions: Some Thoughts on Reading Greenawalt's "Religion and the Constitution: Establishment and Fairness" (2008) (1)
HART AS A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER (2011) (1)
Abortion and Cloning : Some New Evasions (2000) (1)
Sentencing as a Human Process by John Hogarth: An International Review Symposium (1972) (1)
Power to enforce treaties in Australia—the High Court goes centralist? (1983) (1)
WHEN MOST PEOPLE BEGIN (2011) (1)
Tyrwhitt of Kettleby, Part II: Robert Tyrwhitt, A Main Benefactor of Fr John Gerard SJ, 1600–1605 (2003) (1)
A gunpowder priest (2005) (1)
Capacity, harm and experience in the life of persons as equals (2013) (1)
Three Schemes of Regulation (1970) (0)
List of Referees (2005) (0)
SECULARISM'S PRACTICAL MEANING (2011) (0)
Christian Human Rights: A Debate (2017) (0)
States, Nations, and Borders: Natural Law and the Re-making of Boundaries (2003) (0)
scottish journal of theology indispensable role in the work of presenting the Christian message as truth for everyone, however inadequately grasped (2009) (0)
Collected Essays, v. V: Religion & Public Reasons (2011) (0)
Law and moral truth: a philosophical response to seven questions (2017) (0)
WAR AND PEACE IN THE NATURAL LAW TRADITION (2011) (0)
Anscombe's Essays (2009) (0)
Reason in Action: Introduction (2011) (0)
IS AND OUGHT IN AQUINAS (2011) (0)
DARWIN, DEWEY, RELIGION, AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN (2011) (0)
Freedom of Religion (2020) (0)
Contemporary 'positivist theories of law' are natural law theories (2011) (0)
Nuclear Deterrence and Christian Vocation (1989) (0)
POLITICAL NEUTRALITY AND RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS (2011) (0)
“Grounding Human Rights in Natural Law” (2015, response to Fortin) (2017) (0)
RAWLS'S A THEORY OF JUSTICE (2011) (0)
GRACE AND HUMILITY (2011) (0)
Natural Law without Metaphysics : The Case of (2016) (0)
Blackstone's Theoretical Intentions;Note (1967) (0)
1-2003 Caesar , Succesion , and the Chastisement of Rulers (2014) (0)
‘LEGAL LIBERALISM’ OR LIBER ET LEGALIS? (2011) (0)
THREE AND ONE (2011) (0)
The Nature of a Free Society (2017) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Reasoning Naturally (2018) (0)
REASON, PASSIONS, AND FREE SPEECH (2011) (0)
INTENTIONS AND OBJECTS (2011) (0)
The idea of judicial power, with special reference to Australian law (1965) (0)
Natural Law: Practical Reason and Creative Information (2020) (0)
Towards Vatican II's Centenary: Your Next Fifty Years (2016) (0)
An Enhanced Amicus Brief in Dobbs (2021) (0)
OBJECTIVITY AND CONTENT IN ETHICS (2011) (0)
INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, AND POSTMODERNISM: SOME NOTES (2011) (0)
FREEDOM OF SPEECH (2011) (0)
HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS (2011) (0)
Collected Essays, v. I: Reason in Action (2011) (0)
Aquinas as a Primary Source of Catholic Social Teaching (2019) (0)
THE RELEVANCE OF CULPABILITY TO THE PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION OF CRIME (0)
Intention and Identity: Introduction (2011) (0)
ON CREATION AND ETHICS (2011) (0)
THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT (2011) (0)
Why Religious Liberty is a Special, Important and Limited Right (2008) (0)
JOHN FINNIS ON LAW AND JUSTICE (2016) (0)
A Preliminary Rejoinder to Aaron Tang (2021) (0)
Philosophy of Law: Introduction (2011) (0)
Natural Law and the Regulation of Sexuality : A Critique Dr (2016) (0)
194 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1964) (0)
ETHICS AND REVELATION: A FRAGMENT (2011) (0)
PURPOSES, PUBLIC ACTS, AND PERSONIFICATION (2011) (0)
Religion and Public Reasons: Introduction (2011) (0)
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2018) (0)
‘Describing & Delineating Effects’: Comment on a Paper by Thomas Finegan (2016) (0)
Towards a principled doctrine of the margin of appreciation in international human rights law (2007) (0)
ANSCOMBE ON SPIRIT AND INTENTION (2011) (0)
Caesar, Succession, and the Chastisement of Rulers (2003) (0)
Kelsen and Raz on the continuity of legal systems: applying the accounts in an Australian context (2013) (0)
VIRTUE AND THE CONSTITUTION (2011) (0)
MORALITY AND THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL (2011) (0)
HART'S PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENT (2011) (0)
Equality and Religious Liberty: Oppressing Conscientious Diversity in England (2016) (0)
JUST VOTES FOR UNJUST LAWS (2011) (0)
A Radical Critique of Catholic Social Teaching (2019) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2000) (0)
WEBER, OBJECTIVITY, AND LEGAL-RATIONAL AUTHORITY (2011) (0)
Thomas Thorpe, “WS.,” and the Catholic Intelligencers (2003) (0)
PRACTICAL REASONING IN LAW: SOME CLARIFICATIONS (2011) (0)
ORGANIC UNITY, BRAIN LIFE, AND OUR BEGINNING (2011) (0)
Prisoners’ Voting and Judges’ Powers (2015) (0)
C.S. LEWIS AND TEST-TUBE BABIES (2011) (0)
Towards a Reformulation of Natural Law. By Anthony Battaglia. New York, Seabury Press, 1981. Pp. ix + 150. $14.95. (1982) (0)
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND THE BOTTOM LINE (2011) (0)
ON PRODUCING HUMAN EMBRYOS (2011) (0)
The Dual Foundation of Humanae vitae (2018) (0)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF QUESTIONING (2011) (0)
EUTHANASIA AND THE LAW (2011) (0)
LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: ROOTS AND RECENT THEMES (2011) (0)
On Moyn's Christian Human Rights (2015) (2017) (0)
CONDITIONAL AND PREPARATORY INTENTIONS (2011) (0)
COSMOPOLIS, NATION STATES, AND FAMILIES (2011) (0)
NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND THE END OF CHRISTENDOM (2011) (0)
On Anscombe’s “Royal Road” to True Belief (2016) (0)
FAITH, MORALS, AND THOMAS MORE (2011) (0)
ST CUTHBERT'S FAITH AND THE BISHOP OF DURHAM'S UNBELIEF (2011) (0)
RELIGION AND STATE (2011) (0)
INTENTIONALLY KILLING THE ‘PERMANENTLY UNCONSCIOUS’ (2011) (0)
Authority, Legitimacy and Obligation in Law's Empire (and Justice for Hedgehogs ) (2011) (0)
REASON, UNIVERSALITY, AND MORAL THOUGHT (2011) (0)
Planting of Douglas fir seedlings following aerial application of Tordon 101 mixture herbicide. (1970) (0)
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: H. L. A. Hart: a twentieth-century Oxford political philosopher (2011) (0)
WHEN DOES A PERSON BEGIN ? (2005) (0)
The Nature of Law (2020) (0)
The Responsibilities of the United Kingdom Parliament and Government Under the Australian Constitution (1983) (0)
Christian Philosophy and Free Will (2019) (0)
"Brown and burn" as a means of site preparation. (1970) (0)
Human Rights and Common Good: Introduction (2011) (0)
JUSTICE FOR MOTHER AND CHILD (2011) (0)
SELF-REFUTATION REVISITED (2011) (0)

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