‘It’s just not right.’ ‘It’s not natural.’ How many times have you heard these sorts of judgements invoked against a particular practice or act? What do they mean? When abortion is pronounced immoral, same-sex marriage unacceptable, what is the basis of this censure? Is there an objectively ascertainable measure of right and wrong, good and...Read More

Australian academic, currently Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His book Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980) is one of the most important recent books on the philosophy of law. His book has been criticized by many intellectuals. Around 700 years after Thomas Aquinas, John Finnis returned to Aquinas’ ideas and tried to reformulate a modern...Read More