John Finnis

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UG Jurisprudence (Natural Law) Mind Map on John Finnis, created by lstaffordsmith on 04/02/2014.
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John Finnis
  1. Liberal conception of 'good'.
    1. Finnis seeks to identify the values which underlie all human activity - human activity affirms these values:
      1. Life
        1. Knowledge
          1. Supreme value!
          2. Play
            1. Religion
              1. Aesthetic experience
                1. Practical reasonableness
                  1. Desire to pursue the other values in an intelligent and ordered fashion.
                  2. Common ability to experience these values gives meaning to the understanding of common good.
                  3. Task and responsibility of those involved in fashioning society is to respect values and to give effect to them
                    1. Those involved in the administration of law are part of a system whose aim is the achievement of the common good.
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