Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays

462 Pages·2011·3.41 MB·English

by  John Finnis

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Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays Volume V
John Finnis
Print publication date: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199580095
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580095.001.0001
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Religion and Public Reasons RELIGION AND PUBLIC REASONS
(p.ii) Works of John Finnis available from
Oxford University Press
Reason in Action
Collected Essays: Volume I
Intention and Identity
Collected Essays: Volume II
Human Rights and Common Good
Collected Essays: Volume III
Philosophy of Law
Collected Essays: Volume IV
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Religion and Public Reasons
Collected Essays: Volume V
Natural Law and Natural Rights
Second Edition
Aquinas
Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism
with Joseph Boyle and Germain Grisez
(p.iv)
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PREFACE
University Press Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays Volume V
John Finnis
Print publication date: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199580095
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580095.001.0001
(p.v) PREFACE
The earliest of the essays collected in these five volumes dates from 1967, the latest from
2010. The chronological Bibliography of my publications, near the end of each volume,
shows how the collected essays are distributed across the volumes. But each volume
also contains some essays previously unpublished.
Many of the essays appear with new titles. When the change is substantial, the original
published title is noted at the beginning of the essay; the original can of course always
also be found in the Bibliography.
Revision of previously published work has been restricted to clarification. Where there
seems need for substantive qualification or retractation, I have said so in an endnote to
the essay or, occasionally, in a bracketed footnote. Unless the context otherwise
indicates, square brackets signify an insertion made for this Collection. Endnotes to
particular essays have also been used for some updating, especially of relevant law. In
general, each essay speaks from the time of its writing, though the dates given in the
Table of Contents are dates of publication (where applicable) not composition—which
sometimes was one or two years earlier.
I have tried to group the selected essays by theme, both across and within the volumes.
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But there is a good deal of overlapping, and something of each volume's theme will be
found in each of the other volumes. The Index, which like the Bibliography (but not the
‘Other Works Cited’) is common to all volumes, gives some further indication of this,
though it aspires to completeness only as to names of persons. Each volume's own
Introduction serves to amplify and explain that volume's title, and the bearing of its
essays on that theme. (p.vi) (p.vii)
List of Abbreviations
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Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays Volume V
John Finnis
Print publication date: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199580095
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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580095.001.0001
(p.ix) List of Abbreviations
AAS Acta Apostolicae Sedis
AG Vatican II, Ad Gentes (Decree on Missionary Activity, 1965)
AJJ American Journal of Jurisprudence
Aquinas 1998d: John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory (OUP)
CAP E.R. Norman, ‘Christianity in Politics’, in Maurice Cowling (ed.). Conservative
Essays (London: Cassell)
CCC Catechism of the Catholic Church ([1997], London: Geoffrey Chapman,
1999)
CDF Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
CL H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (OUP, 1961)
CMP Germain Grisez, The Way of the Lord Jesus vol. 1 Christian Moral Principles
(Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1983)
CSE E.R. Norman, Church and Society in England 1770–1970 (OUP, 1976)
CTS Catholic Truth Society
CUP Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
CWO E.R. Norman, Christianity and the World Order (OUP, 1978)
DH Vatican II, Dignitatis Humanae (Declaration on Religious Liberty, 1965)
DMQ Germain Grisez, The Way of the Lord Jesus vol. 3 Difficult Moral Questions
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(Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1997)
D-S Henricus Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum Definitionum et Declarationum
de Rebus Fidei et Morum (ed. Adolfus Schönmetzer) (34th edn, Barcelona and
New York: Herder, 1967)
DV Vatican II, Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation) (1965)
FHG Mary Geach and Luke Gormally (eds), Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on
Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe (Exeter, UK, and
Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic, 2008) (p.x)
FoE 1983a: John Finnis, Fundamentals of Ethics (OUP; Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press)
GS Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the
Modern World) (1965)
Hermeneias Aquinas, Commentarium in libros Perihermeneias expositio
[Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione (1269–72)]
HUP Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
In Anima Aquinas, In libros De Anima Expositio [Commentary on Aristotle, De
Anima] (c. 1268)
LCL Germain Grisez, The Way of the Lord Jesus vol. 2 Living a Christian Life
(Quincy: Franciscan Press, 1993)
LE Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire (HUP; London: Fontana, 1986)
LQR Law Quarterly Review
NE Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
NLNR 1980a: John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights (2nd edn, OUP, 2011)
NDMR 1987g: John Finnis, Joseph Boyle, and Germain Grisez, Nuclear
Deterrence, Morality and Realism (OUP, 1987)
OUP Oxford: Oxford University Press (including Clarendon Press)
Sent. Aquinas, Scriptum super Libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardiensis
[Commentary on the Sentences [Opinions or Positions of the Church Fathers] of
Peter Lombard] (c. 1255)
ScG Aquinas, Summa contra Gentiles [A Summary against the Pagans] (c. 1259–
65?)
ST Aquinas, Summa Theologiae [A Summary of Theology] (c. 1265–73)
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Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays Volume V
John Finnis
Print publication date: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199580095
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580095.001.0001
(p.xi) The Cover Picture
View of Lake Torrens, 22 August by S.T. Gill (Adelaide, 1846).
This water colour depicts John Horrocks with, on his right, the artist, gazing out over the
dry salt-bed of vast Lake Torrens from its southern shore, on a late-winter morning.
Horrocks stands six foot two inches tall, a man of initiative, action, and vision. Educated in
England and France; he emigrated in 1839 to South Australia from Vienna, where his
restless English family had lately settled. He established a farm, a township, an Anglican
church, and a vineyard in the Clare Valley, eighty miles north of Adelaide. Now, in August
1846, he is leading a six-man expedition 125 miles further north, in search of new
agricultural lands. The two men have set off in early dawn from the expedition's new base
camp, established under the western slopes of the Flinders Ranges the previous day.
After riding about twelve miles west-north-west, they are not far from the mouth where
water flows from the immense lake in those very rare years when it fills.
Gill is sketching; looking ahead, he sees the scene from behind them. When he did the
painting itself later in the same year, he knew the aftermath. At the end of August,
Horrocks, Gill, and another had mounted another small foray, further west across even
more inhospitable country to a smaller lake-bed which Horrocks named Lake Gill (now
Lake Dutton). There the expedition's camel, the first to be used in Australian exploration,
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knocked Horrocks's gun, which went off and wounded him. Gill and the rest struggled
back with him to his farm at Clare, where he died in late September of gangrene, aged 28.