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Full-Text Articles in Natural Law
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision And Truth, Gerard V. Bradley
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision And Truth, Gerard V. Bradley
Journal Articles
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth. By John Finnis.
Catholic University of America Press. 113 pages. $9.95.
Receipts for what the producers had the decency to call Indecent Proposal approach $100 million. The couple's earnest deliberations evidently engage. The moviegoer, I suppose, wonders with Demi and Woody: Are there some things that, no matter what, it is never right to do? Are there, in other words, absolute moral prohibitions? Is adultery one of them?
In this formidable volume, Oxford philosopher John Finnis cogently defends the common answer (for millennia, until just a few decades ago) of Jews and Christians: There …
The Institutional Imperative: Resolving Transboundary Water Conflict In Arid Agricultire Regions Of The United States And The Commmon Wealth Of Independent States, Susan J. Buck, Gregory W. Gleason, Mitchel S. Jofuku
The Institutional Imperative: Resolving Transboundary Water Conflict In Arid Agricultire Regions Of The United States And The Commmon Wealth Of Independent States, Susan J. Buck, Gregory W. Gleason, Mitchel S. Jofuku
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Commentary, Carlos Nagel
Commentary, Keith A. Henry
Commentary, Michael J. Donahue
Commentary, Frank Quinn
Commentary, Chad Day
Commentary, Ulises Canchola
Commentary, Chad Day
The International Joint Commission And Public Participation: Past Experiences, Present Challenges, Future Tasks, Mimi Larsen Becker
The International Joint Commission And Public Participation: Past Experiences, Present Challenges, Future Tasks, Mimi Larsen Becker
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
The Matter Of Public Participation, Robert D. Hayton
The Matter Of Public Participation, Robert D. Hayton
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Commentary, Mary E. Kelly
Commentary, Gerardo Ceballos
'Posterity' In The Preamble And A Positivist Pro-Life Position, Raymond B. Marcin
'Posterity' In The Preamble And A Positivist Pro-Life Position, Raymond B. Marcin
Scholarly Articles
Arguments for the overturning of the Roe decision can be grouped into two categories: (1) the positivist argument that, contrary to the assertions in the Roe decision, nothing in the Constitution protects the right to privacy in the abortion decision (thus leaving legislatures free to regulate the matter), and (2) the natural law argument that a fetus or unborn child has a fundamental and inalienable right to life (thus preventing legislatures from regulating the matter, except for compelling governmental reasons). The right-to-life movement is grounded upon the latter, natural law position. The difficulty for the pro-life movement is that, if …
Nature And Powers Of The Ijc And The Ibwc, The, Lucio Cabrera
Nature And Powers Of The Ijc And The Ibwc, The, Lucio Cabrera
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Commentary, John E. Carroll
Commentary, Joaquin R. Bustamante
Commentary - Does The Past Record Of Action Provide A Guide To The Future, Joseph F. Friedkin
Commentary - Does The Past Record Of Action Provide A Guide To The Future, Joseph F. Friedkin
Natural Resources Journal
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Commentary, Miguel Solanes
Commentary, C. Richard Bath
Commentary, Peg Rogers
Commentary, Cliff Metzner
Commentary, Neil R. Fulton
Natural Rights, Natural Law, And American Constitutions, Philip A. Hamburger
Natural Rights, Natural Law, And American Constitutions, Philip A. Hamburger
Faculty Scholarship
Natural rights and natural -law are ideas that frequently seem to have something in common with the elusive shapes of a Rorschach test. They are suggestive of well-defined, recognizable images, yet they are so indeterminate that they permit us to see in them what we are inclined to see. Like Rorschach's phantasm-inducing ink blots, natural rights and natural law are not only suggestive but also indeterminate – ideas to which each of us can plausibly attribute whatever qualities we happen to associate with them. For this reason, we may reasonably fear that natural rights and natural law are ideas often …
The "Value Of Human Life" And "The Right To Death": Some Reflections On Cruzan And Ronald Dworkin, John M. Finnis
The "Value Of Human Life" And "The Right To Death": Some Reflections On Cruzan And Ronald Dworkin, John M. Finnis
Journal Articles
These reflections focus on three members (one professor and two alumni) of my Oxford college. Though University College officially bears the name The Great Hall of the University of Oxford, it is only one of that university's 30 colleges, and not a particularly large one-only about 450 students and teaching fellows like myself. My title's focus on one named law professor may already seem narrow. How then, you may wonder, can adding two more names from the same little institution in England make this lecture less parochial, and more relevant to Southern Illinois?
Morality And Legal Reasoning, Gerard V. Bradley
Morality And Legal Reasoning, Gerard V. Bradley
Journal Articles
Natural law has been derided by several generations of intellectuals as "nonsense on stilts" (Bentham) or a "brooding omni- presence in the sky" (Holmes). Nevertheless, the idea refuses to go away. For a long time natural law theory was the preserve of neo- Scholastic theologians and philosophers in Roman Catholic universities and seminaries. In a nice bit of irony, however, just as Catholic institutions have begun to secularize by adopting the norms and standards of prominent institutions such as Harvard, Oxford, and Princeton, defenders of natural law theory have suddenly popped up at just these establishments. Fully equipped with the …
Comment, Agnes Heller