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Justification In The Killing Of An Innocent Person, John Makdisi

Cleveland State Law Review

It is appropriate to call Finnis' approach to life as an incommensurable basic human good a natural law approach. It suggests that there is more to life than just an accumulation of wealth, happiness, value, etc. There is something about life that we cannot value, that we cannot measure, that we cannot fathom, that is mysterious. While contract and even some tort law are readily adaptable to arguments of economic efficiency, there are areas where such arguments do not belong. Specifically, where the end result cannot be measured because the values at stake are incommensurable, there may be no best …

Natural Law Without Metaphysics: The Case Of John Finnis, Jeremy Shearmur

Cleveland State Law Review

Finnis, in Natural Law and Natural Right, sidesteps certain problems by taking a largely internalist view of natural law. First, for Finnis there is no problem of moving from facts to values, because within his starting-point-the "internal" reflective analysis of action-values are already there to be found. Second, Finnis suggests that what is today often cited as "the" statement of a fact/value problem, Hume's analysis, is in fact better understood as directed towards a different problem: one of the relation between truth and motivation. Here Finnis also offers a solution, suggesting that "one is motivated according to one's understanding of …

Feminist Literary Criticism And The Author, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

In the course of this essay I wish to reopen the (never fully closed) question of whether it is advisable to speak of the author, or of what Foucault calls "the author function," when querying a text, and I wish to reopen it precisely at the site where feminist criticism and post-structuralism are presently engaged in dialogue. Here in particular we might expect that reasons for rejecting author erasure would appear. However, theoretically informed feminist critics have recently found themselves tempted to agree with Barthes, Foucault, and the Edward Said of Beginnings that the authorial presence is best set aside …

Symbolic Logic : Classical And Advanced Systems, Harry Gensler, S.J.

Harry J. Gensler, S.J.

This book covers the classical systems (propositional and quantificational logic), more advanced philosophical systems (modal, deontic, and belief logic), the formalization of an ethical theory, and a short introduction to metalogic.

Truer Liberty: Simone Weil And Marxism, Lawrence Blum, Victor Seidler

Lawrence Blum

Shows how Simone Weil developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves as an alternative to liberalism and Marxism.

Beyond Disaster Ethics, Michael Pritchard

Michael Pritchard

Virtues In Political Life, Michael Pritchard

Michael Pritchard

Taipei, Michael Pritchard

Michael Pritchard

Sung Dynasty Uses Of The I Ching, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

No abstract provided.

Psalm 24 - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Anthem for SATB mixed choir and piano. This music was originally written as a setting of the French version of Psalm 24. It was later adapted to the English words (King James version).

Jazz Sehen: Julije Knifers Mäander, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.