Morality from the "Practical Viewpoint": The Amoral Legal Theory of John Finnis

• In Event: Constitutional Interpretivism, Morality, and Judicial Behavior

Brief Overview

Probing the scholarly discussion about the relationship between morality and reason in natural law, this paper attends to the fundamental concepts of Natural Law and Natural Rights and argues that the theory of John Finnis is amoral.

Author

• Ivy Flessen, Duke University