Natural Law and Natural Rights

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Description
The text of the first edition, including its footnotes and the endnotes to each chapter, is almost unchanged. Typographical and other formal errors have been corrected, and two or three kinds of locution whose connotations have altered significantly since 1979 have been adjusted. Although everything has been reset, the pagination is the same, within one line per page, up to the point where the Postscript begins, after which there is also an enlarged Index to both the original book and the Postscript. The aim of the Postscript is not to say everything that might well be said if these matters were to be treated afresh. Rather it is to indicate where the original needs, I think, amendment or supple- mentation. The Postscript begins with some general observations, by way of introductory Overview, and then comments on each chapter section by section, in sequence. In the Index, references to pages numbered above +13 are to new material.This new edition was prepared in conjunction with the five volumes of my Collected Essays (hereafter CEJF). References in the Postscript to items republished in those volumes use the form essay II.13 and so forth. Where the original edition cited some- thing republished in CEJF, a supplementary reference in that form has also been inserted. Each of those five volumes contains a substantially complete Bibliography of my publications both before and after Natural Law and Natural Rights. The short Bibli- ography of Cited Essays, after the Postscript, locates each of the works of mine cited in the Postscript, whether or not republished in CEJE.
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Table of Contents
Part One
I. Evaluation and the Description of Law
II. Images and Objections
Part Two
III. A Basic Form of Good : Knowledge
IV. The Other Basic Values
V. The Basic Requirements of Practical Reasonableness
VI. Community, Communities, and Common good
VII. Justice
VIII. Rights
IX. Authority
X. Law
XI. Obligation
XII. Unjust Laws
Part Three
XIII. Nature, Reason, God
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Author Details
John Finnis