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Intention and Identity - Collected Essays Volume II (Hardcover, New)
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Intention and Identity - Collected Essays Volume II (Hardcover, New)
Series: Collected Essays of John Finnis
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The essays in Intention and Identity explore themes in Finnis's
work touched on only lightly, if at all, in Natural Law and Natural
Rights, developing profound accounts of personal identity and
existence; group identity and common good; and intention and choice
as action- and self-shaping. In his many-faceted study of what it
is to be a human person, and a human community, Finnis not only
engages with contemporary philosophers and bioethicists such as
Peter Singer, Michael Lockwood and John Harris, with thinkers from
other traditions such as Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), and with
judges in the highest courts. He also offers illuminating and
deeply considered readings of Shakespeare and Aquinas, and debates
with Roger Scruton, Joseph Raz, Hans Kelsen, John Rawls, Glanville
Williams, Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin and others. The role of
intention in the criminal law and the law of civil wrongs is
searchingly explored through case-law, as are judicial attempts to
understand conditional and preparatory intentions. Moral or
bioethical issues discussed include in vitro fertilization,
cloning, abortion, euthanasia, and 'brain death', patriotism,
multi-culturalism and immigration. The essays show the power of a
sometimes neglected aspect of the new classical theory of natural
law. The volume includes previously unpublished essays on whether
brain life is relevant to the beginning of a person's life, on its
relevance to the end of one's life, and a substantial introduction
in which John Finnis reflects on the nature of human spirit, and on
the changes in his thinking about personal reality and about how
intention is to be analysed and understood, and its moral
significance for individuals and groups appreciated.
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