Finnis, John

Internet Resources

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Moral and Legal Concepts

Nature and natural law in the contemporary philosophical and theological debates: some observations, Pontifical Academy for Life, Feb 2002.

Natural Law: The Classical Tradition (major 60pp article in Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law) [PDF]

Natural Law Theories, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Aquinas' Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Priority of Persons [PDF] in Horder (ed), Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence (2000)

Medical Ethics

Theology & The Four Principles of Bioethics, in R. Gillon, Principles of Health Care Ethics, 1993 [with Anthony Fisher, OP]

Abortion & Cloning: Some New Evasions, 2000.

Sexual Ethics

Reason, Faith & Homosexual Acts, Catholic Social Scientist Review, 2001.

Law, Morality and "Sexual Orientation", Notre Dame Law Review, 1994 [PDF]

The Good of Marriage and the morality of sexual relations: some philosophical and historical observations, American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1997 [PDF]

Political/Social Ethics

Secularism, Morality & Politics [comments on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life, from CDF], L'Osservatore Romano, Jan 2003

Other

Economy or Explication? Telling the Truth About God and Man in a Pluralist Society [PDF]

Lectures on Video

Practical Reason

God and Man

Secularism

Reviews of Finnis' Works

Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory

John J. Conley, Theological Studies, Dec 1999

Anthony J. Lisska, Cross Currents, Winter 2000