{"product_id":"reason-in-action-collected-essays-volume-i-9780199580057","title":"Reason in Action: Collected Essays Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Finnis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Natural Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReason in Action\u003c\/em\u003e collects John Finnis' work on the theory of practical reason and moral philosophy. The essays in the volume range from foundational issues of meta-ethics to the practical application of natural law theory to ethical problems such as nuclear deterrence, obscenity and free speech, and abortion and cloning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDefending the objectivity of some evaluative and moral judgments, the volume's meta-ethical papers debate with figures as diverse as Jurgen Habermas, Bernard Williams, David Hume, Max Weber, and Christine Korsgaard, and offer a new understanding of Wittgenstein's \u003cem\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/em\u003e. Further papers engage with Philippa Foot, Geoffrey Warnock, Leo Strauss, Terence Irwin, neo-scholastic interpreters of Aquinas, utilitarians, game theorists, and Immanuel Kant on the shape of moral thought. John Rawls's conception of public reason, J.S. Mill's understanding of free speech, Jacques Maritain's appeal to \"connatural\" knowledge, and Karl Rahner's idea of changing human nature are critically contested. Foundational questions addressed in the volume include: how legal reasoning differs from general practical reasoning; how aesthetic appreciation differs from erotic attraction; how subrational elements enter into the rational standard of fairness; how virtues depend upon principles and norms; and how\u003cbr\u003eincommensurabilities count in moral thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese papers mark the development of Finnis' new classical theory of natural law, engaged with contemporary thinkers and problems. Several papers previously unpublished show that emergence before \u003cem\u003eNatural Law and Natural Rights\u003c\/em\u003e was written. Other unpublished papers include a discussion of pornography, an analysis of freedom of speech, and a substantive introduction reflecting on the theory, its reception, and the convergence on it of capabilities theorists such as Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891307331735,"sku":"9780199580057","price":10333.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199580057.webp?v=1781183138","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/reason-in-action-collected-essays-volume-i-9780199580057","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}