John Finnis
- Jurist
- John Finnis
- School
- New Natural Law
- Theory
- New Natural Law Theory; seven basic human goods (life, knowledge, play, aesthetic experience, sociability/friendship, practical reasonableness, religion); practical reasonableness as the master good.
- Quote
There are seven basic goods of human flourishing that require practical reasonableness.
- Books
Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980), Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory (1998)
- Propounded
New Natural Law Theory; seven basic human goods (life, knowledge, play, aesthetic experience, sociability/friendship, practical reasonableness, religion); practical reasonableness as the master good
- Born
- 1940
- Portrait
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