COLL ESS INTENTION IDENTIT V2 CEJF

NCS C
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-958006-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 734 g

Collects for the first time John Finnis's work on the nature of personal identity and intentional action, a neglected aspect of his natural law theory
Features 4 previously unpublished papers, including essays on the relevance of brain life to the beginning and end of a person's life
Includes Finnis's important analysis of the role of intention in legal liability, essential reading for all those working on tort and criminal law

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 The volume includes previously unpublished essays on whether brain life is relevant to the beginning of a person's life, on ist relevance to the end of one's life, and a substantial introduction in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 ist moral significance for individuals and groups appreciated.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of the philosophy of action, moral philosophy, philosophy of law, and theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finnis

Finnis, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Nature and Freedom in Personal Identity
1: The Priority of Persons
2: Personal Identity in Aquinas and Shakespeare
3: Anscombe on Spirit and Intention
Group Identity and Group Acts
4: Purposes, Public Acts, and Personification
5: Persons and Their Associations
6: Law, Universality, and Social Identity
7: Cosmopolis, Nation States, and Families
Acts and Intentions
8: Human Acts
9: Intentions and Objects
10: Intention and Side-Effects
11: Intention in Tort Law
12: Conditional and Preparatory Intentions
13: 'Direct' and 'Indirect' in Action
14: Intention in Direct Discrimination
Persons Beginning and Dying
15: Organic Unity, Brain Life, and Our Beginning
16: When Most People Begin
17: On Producing Human Embryos
18: Brain Death and Peter Singer
19: Intentionally Killing the 'Permanently Unconscious'
Bibliography of the Works of John Finnis

Über Autor(innen)

John Finnis, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame