Reason in action

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'Reason in Action' collects John Finnis's work on practical reason and moral philosophy. Ranging from foundational issues of meta-ethics to modern ethical debates, the essays trace the emergence and development of Finnis's new classical theory of natural law through close engagement with a broad range of thinkers and problems.

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Full title :Reason in action / John Finnis.

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Publication Date:2011.

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (365 pages).

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ISBN:9780191616174, 0191616176
oclc:ocn757401464
LC Classification:K460
Dewey Decimal:340/.112

pt. 1. Foundations. Practical reason's foundations (2005) -- Discourse, truth, and friendship (1999) -- Scepticism's self-refutation (1977) -- Self-refutation revisited (2005) -- Bernard Williams on truth's values (2008) -- Reason, authority, and friendship (1970) -- Reason, universality, and moral thought (1971) -- Objectivity and content in ethics (1975) -- Is and ought in Aquinas (1987) -- pt. 2. Building on the foundations. Action's most ultimate end (1984) -- Prudence about ends (1997) -- Moral absolutes in Aristotle and Aquinas (1990) -- 'Natural law' (1996) -- Legal reasoning as practical reason (1992) -- pt. 3. Public reason and unreason. Commensuration and public reason (1997) -- "Public reason" and moral debate (1998) -- Reason, passions, and free speech (1967) -- Freedom of speech (1970) -- Pornography (1973).