Reason in Action collects John Finnis's work on the theory of
practical reason and moral philosophy. The essays in the volume
range from foundational issues of meta-ethics to the practical
application of natural law theory to ethical problems such as
nuclear deterrence, obscenity and free speech, and abortion and
cloning. Defending the objectivity of some evaluative and moral
judgments, the volume's meta-ethical papers debate with figures as
diverse as Jurgen Habermas, Bernard Williams, David Hume, Max
Weber, and Christine Korsgaard, and offer a new understanding of
Wittgenstein's On Certainty. Further papers engage with Philippa
Foot, Geoffrey Warnock, Leo Strauss, Terence Irwin, Matthew Kramer,
neo-scholastic interpreters of Aquinas, utilitarians, game
theorists, and Immanuel Kant on the shape of moral thought. John
Rawls's conception of public reason, J.S. Mill's understanding of
free speech, and Jacques Maritain's appeal to "connatural"
knowledge are critically contested. Foundational questions
addressed in the volume include: how legal reasoning differs from
general practical reasoning; how aesthetic appreciation differs
from erotic attraction; how subrational elements enter into the
rational standard of fairness; how virtues depend upon principles
and norms; and how incommensurabilities count in moral thought.
These essays mark the development of Finnis's new classical theory
of natural law, engaged with contemporary thinkers and problems.
Several essays, including two previously unpublished, show the
theory's emergence before Natural Law and Natural Rights. Other
unpublished essays include a discussion of pornography, an analysis
of freedom of speech, and a substantive introduction reflecting on
the theory, its reception, and the convergence on it of
capabilities theorists such as Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.
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