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E.P. Brandon: Quantifiers and the Pursuit of Truth, self-refutation, Finnis, Mackie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Finnis argues that truth, and the knowledge thereof, is self-evidently part of the good for man. He offered the argument in a Festschrift for H.L.A. Hart, and in that context he relates it to Hart's concern to explain law and morality by reference to human survival. Clearly, Finnis' claim has important consequences beyond its bearing on Hart's theorizing; if he were correct, he would have plugged many a hole in attempted justifications of education, compulsory schooling, the promotion of rationality and so on, to mention only a few of the issues of peculiar concern to philosophers of education. Finnis in his later discussion claims that his line (2) is entailed by (1), given "the definitional relation between asserting that p and implicit commitment to whatever is entailed by p. www.cavehill.uwi.edu /bnccde/epb/quantifiers.html   (3960 words)

Mark R. Discher Finnis avers to the contrary that “human beings are not equally devoted to the pursuit of knowledge or justice, and are far from united in their conception of what constitutes worthwhile knowledge or a demand of justice.” In short, I do believe that Finnis is begging the question here; that he is surreptitiously smuggling in what is in his own words “an unwavering recognition of the literally immeasurable value of human personality in each of its basic aspects (the solid core of the notion of human dignity). Finnis purports to answer these questions of “the broad distribution of rights” by making it a requirement of practical reasonableness that one ought to favor and foster the common good of his or her communities. www.law.ku.edu /oldsite/jrnl/v9n2/dische_m.html   (5210 words)

Finnis on Homosexuality Finnis would presumably insist that sexual love is not, as it were, by nature part of the sort of friendship of which same-sex partners are capable, because sexual love is procreative. Finnis might insist (I am speculating here) that at least their sex acts are of the sort that could be procreative and that that is enough to make them "unitive," to borrow a word from Catholic theology. Finnis argues that nonetheless it is not capable of fulfilling this function, but his argument seems to rest on a premise -- the centrality of procreation to healthy sexuality -- that is open to question. brindedcow.umd.edu /140/finnis.html   (2520 words)

John Finnis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Finnis, by constructing an account of the basic goods out of the self-reflective consideration of practical reason, never attempts to derive an evaluative 'ought' from a non-evaluative 'is'; instead, he begins by reflecting on the most general ends or goals of action as understood by practical reason and mediated by critical self-reflection. Finnis' response to such criticism would be that they have simply failed to follow his arguments from beginning to end, since they seek to demonstrate that any human agent who reflects honestly upon the aims of his own life and human life in general must accept his conclusions. Finnis takes his position to be properly independent of the metaphysical question about whether knowledge of the nature of human beings can provide an account of the human goods; whether or not such a procedure is possible, Finnis claims that his position on the human goods cannot be rejected without self-contradiction. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Finnis   (1393 words)

Finnis and natural law and aquinas For example, Finnis is an Australian, born in the late 1930s, and educated in Australia and Oxford. Finnis will isolate what he calls seven "basic goods" in life, goods that are fundamental, underived from other goods and irreducible to other things, that are the motivation and goal of action (sort of the moral equivalent of chemical elements). Finnis says that of the seven "basic goods," three are substantive (existing prior to action) and four are reflexive (depending on our choices). www.drbilllong.com /Jurisprudence/Finnis.html   (925 words)

Cork Online Law Review - 2004 Finnis should also be applauded for his recognition of the vital roles that Play and Aesthetic Experience fulfill in human life. Yet according to Finnis, these people cannot be criticised, because as far as they are concerned, they have acted reasonably. Furthermore, Finnis himself suggests as much by stating that despite being free to choose which of the Basic Goods we choose to pursue and which to ignore, we have no good reason to leave Practical Reasonableness out of account. www.ucc.ie /colr/essay/2002v.htm   (2416 words)

Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - UCLan - Katerina Finnis Setting up such a database will allow researchers in the area of multilingualism and language interaction in general to study varieties they are not familiar with and share their data with fellow researchers. Finnis, K. and Gardner-Chloros, P. McEntee-Atalianis, L. Ελληνοκύπριοι στο Λονδίνο: Μία μελέτη για τη χρήση της γλώσσας, τις στάσεις απέναντι στη γλώσσα, και γλώσσα και ταυτότητα (Greek-Cypriots in London: an empirical study of language use, attitudes and identity.). Finnis, K. (in writing) The interaction between social discourses and situated meanings in the code-switching practices of Greek Cypriot youths in London. www.uclan.ac.uk /facs/class/humanities/staff/finnis.htm   (391 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Finnis replies, (1) the early brain is merely potentially mental, not actually. Finnis replies, (1) Shape of fetus is no good reason for view. Finnis replies, (1) Infant mortality has always been high, (2) Some of these beings are not persons, (3) We don’t know the idea behind all of God’s plans. www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~brandt/medical/summ_finnis.doc   (438 words)

Finnis, John (1802 - 1872) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) FINNIS, JOHN (1802-1872), master mariner, pastoralist and overlander, was born on 3 December 1802 at Dover, Kent, England, the second son of Gilbert Finnis and Elizabeth, née Nash. In 1838 Finnis temporarily forsook the sea for the saddle, and with Captain Charles Sturt rode overland with 300 head of cattle which they had speculatively purchased in New South Wales for sale in Adelaide. Finnis returned to the sea in 1842, first as captain of the King Henry, and in 1843 as owner of the Joseph Albino, in which he carried passengers and cargo between England, Australia and New Zealand. www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A010357b.htm   (741 words)

Natural Law [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Each of these goods, according to Finnis, has intrinsic value in the sense that it should, given human nature, be valued for its own sake and not merely for the sake of some other good it can assist in bringing about. Nevertheless, Finnis believes that to the extent that a norm fails to satisfy these conditions, it likewise fails to fully manifest the nature of law and thereby fails to fully obligate the citizen-subject of the law. Thus, Finnis argues that "a ruler's use of authority is radically defective if he exploits his opportunities by making stipulations intended by him not for the common good but for his own or his friends' or party's or faction's advantage, or out of malice against some person or group" (Finnis 1980, 352). www.utm.edu /research/iep/n/natlaw.htm   (5769 words)

Lingua Franca - The Stand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Finnis would argue that the state's position was a wholly secular one that traced its roots to long before the rise of Christianity, and that, if anything, owed much to the founders of the Western tradition of rational thought. Contra Finnis, she declared that "prior to the Christian tradition there is no evidence that natural-law theories regarded same-sex erotic attachments as immoral, 'unnatural,' or improper." Hence any natural-law theory that "condemns gay or lesbian sexual conduct and relationships as a violation of natural law or the natural human good...is inherently theological." (Finnis says he reads Latin well but needs a dictionary for Greek.) What Nussbaum said on the stand that day suggests why her testimony was potentially so devastating — not only to Finnis's argument but to his intellectual amour-propre as well. www.learnedhand.com /nussbaum.htm   (5351 words)

PrawfsBlawg: Finnis on "Religion and State" Finnis’ comment that the Islamic ‘radicalised’ justification of theocratic rule ‘have not convincingly been shown to be unfaithful to the core texts or traditions of Islam’s purported divine communication,’ is a rather self-serving and eminently arguable conclusion. Finnis appears to endorse everything the Pope said in the aforementioned lecture with regard to Islam. Finally, I gather from Finnis’ otherwise interesting essay that ‘Caesaropapism’ is an historical anomaly, as were the religious wars in Christian Europe that so troubled Hobbes and helped give birth to both securalism and the modern nation-state. prawfsblawg.blogs.com /prawfsblawg/2006/11/finnis_on_relig.html   (1631 words)

Your Place And Mine - Down - Finnis - a Haunted Tree? In the early years of the 20th century a malevolent spirit is said to have haunted the area around the Dree Hill Road bridge, in the centre of Finnis, which spans the upper reaches of the River Lagan. As for the village of finnis it is in an area of outstanding natural beauty' it is well worth a visit; close by is the legnanny dolmen [a mini stonehenge] on a good day it is a sight to behold. I think the area of Finnis and Dromara CO. Down is just beautiful, the people are so friendly and the church near the haunted (St. Michael's) is just loving, the grounds, lawns and flower beds is just so well kept. www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/down/A1934651.shtml   (812 words)

Amazon.com: Natural Law and Natural Rights (Clarendon Law Series): Books: John Finnis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) In evidence here is the Finnis critical of Nozick's libertarian views of redistribution and implacably opposed to strategic nuclear weapons--hardly the right-wing ogre some of his detractors may suppose him to be. Finnis' arguments can be hard to grasp, principally because natural law is not argued for, but is self-evident, and can only be submitted to a defense. For Finnis, the reasonable grasp of basic goods, i.e., the awareness of first practical principles, i.e., the natural law, is known per se nota, not derived from anything. www.amazon.com /Natural-Law-Rights-Clarendon/dp/0198761104   (2028 words)

John Finnis John Finnis is Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at Oxford Law since 1989 and the Bolchini Family Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School since 1995. Currently, Finnis shares his time between Notre Dame and Oxford University, where he has held the positions of lecturer, reader and a chaired professor in law for over three decades. Finnis teaches courses in Jurisprudence and the Social, Political and Legal Theory of Thomas Aquinas. www.nd.edu /~ndethics/about/finnis.shtml   (279 words)

Rattle-The-Cage.com Henry Finnis was born in North Devon, growing up on the family dairy farm in Dorset and attending school in the South West of England before joining the Royal Navy in 1968 where he served as a pilot then nuclear submariner. Henry Finnis is an active and experienced inshore and offshore yachtsman as well as maintaining an ongoing interest in rugby union, international cricket and nineteenth Century naval history. Henry Finnis is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. www.rattle-the-cage.com /rtc/Bios/Henry-Finnis.html   (402 words)

Amazon.ca: Death Cuts Both Ways: Books: Jane Finnis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Finnis's use of colloquial speech can jar, and her plotting is less complex than that of, say, Steven Saylor in his Roma Sub Rosa series. Finnis also is not Saylor's equal in integrating the history of the time she describes into her plot, but those readers more interested in a fast-paced tale than in becoming drawn into a created world will be satisfied. Finnis does a good job of interweaving several plot strands into a suspenseful and authentically detailed historical whodunit. www.amazon.ca /Death-Cuts-Both-Ways-Finnis/dp/1590581938   (343 words)

Author of the Month: Jane Finnis Mention mysteries and the Roman empire and most people think of adventures in the imperial city involving Falco trying to stay one step ahead of trouble on all sides or maybe a Wishart or Roberts drawing on the more raffish members of the senatorial class. What they probably don't picture, unless they've had the good fortune to discover Jane Finnis' books for themselves, is a an intelligent and attractive female innkeeper with a sense of humor and a will of iron on the fringes of the empire in the north of Britain. Jane Finnis took time off from "slaving over a hot word processor" (to quote her own website, which incidentally always give me a smile by offering the page update info in Latin) to answer some questions. www.myshelf.com /aom/06/finnis.htm   (2222 words)

A Bitter Chill by Jane Finnis I've read enough historical mysteries to really appreciate someone staking out fresh territory rather than offering something that may be enjoyable but still begs to be labeled the next [insert established author's name]. Jane Finnis does this with her Roman series featuring Aurelia Marcella, a female innkeeper. Finnis stays true to the customs of the time by having Aurelia's brother Lucius the mansio's (inn's) legal owner, but Aurelia's clearly in charge (I suspect that happened more often than we might think). www.myshelf.com /mystery/05/bitterchill.htm   (331 words)

Paghat's Garden: Muscari armeniacum 'Valerie Finnis' This April photo shows the grape hyacinth clone Muscari armeniacum muscari 'Valerie Finnis' with its pallid powder-blue flowers, while in the background are thick patches of Muscari botryoides, & to the right is lower limb of a 'Hino Crimson' azalea. We a planted a second group of 'Valerie Finnis' bulbs in autumn 2003, placing them amidst or around some Crocus speciosus ssp speciosus. So in autumn 2004 we planted another twenty 'Valerie Finnis' in a spot she could have all to herself, at a garden edge not far from the dripline of an 'Oceanlake' dwarf evergreen rhododendron. www.paghat.com /muscarivalerie.html   (511 words)

Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis' Although rhizomatous, 'Valerie Finnis' is generally quite restrained and is not considered to be as invasive in the garden as the species and some of the other cultivars thereunder. 'Valerie Finnis' is a compact cultivar which features stems and leaves that are silvery-white and pubescent. It is a generally upright perennial that is grown for its attractive foliage which adds contrast to gardens. www.mobot.org /gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=B440   (299 words)

Kim Finnis - Family law practice, Guildford, Surrey, England - Home The practice of Kim Finnis, which was founded in January 2002, deals exclusively in providing legal advice in the area of family law. The way that a case is handled and the effectiveness of the advice obtained, is of the utmost importance. Kim Finnis, who is a specialist family lawyer, has the experience and expertise to advise you on all the options available. www.kimfinnis.co.uk   (125 words)

Polireview Explain how Finnis thinks anyone who seriously believes that “knowledge is not a good” holds a self-defeating belief. What does Finnis mean in saying that all of the values are equally basic? What does Finnis say about someone who asserts "liberalism must not make any judgments about the good life; instead, liberalism must simply secure our negative rights so we are free to pursue our individual conceptions of the good life"? www.arches.uga.edu /~jfennel/polireview.html   (862 words)

Paul Finnis Landscaping - Scunthorpe based garden maintenance and landscaping specialist.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Paul Finnis Landscaping - Scunthorpe based garden maintenance and landscaping specialist. Established for over 15 years, Paul Finnis has gained an excellent reputation that has been exclusively built on recommendations from both private and corporate clients. We have worked extensively in the Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire area of the UK and our portfolio encompasses a wide range of projects from simple garden gates to full design and build. www.paulfinnislandscaping.co.uk   (122 words)

Amazon.com: Fundamentals of Ethics: Books: John Finnis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) Because of this last, Finnis moves from hermeneutics to philosophy, and readily offers thought experiments from various non-Aristotelian sources for the reader to consider, and through these Finnis thinks he can demonstrate a mutual consensus on certain goods to seek and evils to avoid. Such an account is one which engages the reader with his own grasp of goods and evil, and not a text-book and dogmatic exposition of a "natural law theory", the latter of which would be a rather curiously self-contradictory approach. John Finnis is probably the most famous now living philosopher in the Natural Law tradition of Aquinas. www.amazon.com /Fundamentals-Ethics-John-Finnis/dp/0878404082   (1068 words)

Lifeissues.net | Finnis, John John Finnis teaches in jurisprudence, jurisprudence and political theory, and constitutional Law. Professor of Law & Legal Philosophy since 1989, and a law tutor at University College since 1966. Most of the ways of talking and arguing that I shall look at are evasions intended to mask what is being chosen and done. www.lifeissues.net /writer.php?ID=fin   (306 words)

Recent Publications LM Liborio, CG Sanchez, AT Paxton and MW Finnis AY Lozovoi, A Alavi, PA Korzhavyi, and MW Finnis in Properties of Complex Inorganic Solids, Vol. Prediction of the bcc structure in a Cu sigma 3-84deg <211> tilt grain boundary and its confirmation by HRTEM titus.phy.qub.ac.uk /group/Mike/pubs.html   (1071 words)

Artemisia Valerie Finnis - Annuals - Denver Plants 'Valrie Finnis' does poorly in heavy soils that don't drain. If you live at lower elevations, 'Valrie Finnis' should be winter hardy. Cut plants back to near ground level at the end of the growing season. www.denverplants.com /annual/html/artem_fin.htm   (58 words)

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