Natural Law: Practical Reason and Creative Information

21 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2019 Last revised: 5 May 2022

Date Written: November 6, 2019

Abstract

This paper was written for and delivered at a conference on Natural Law, Human Rights and Chinese Traditional Culture, held in Beijing by the Law School and the Institute for Human Rights of the China University of Political Science and Law, on 26-27 October 2019. Leaving unstated its probably many connections with Chinese traditional cultures, it seeks to articulate some main theses of the tradition that, owing as much (if not more) to Hebrew prophets as to Greek philosophers, is foundational for a critical appropriation and defence of authentic human rights. Leaving many important human rights unstated, it tries to identify the rational foundations for them all, in nine theses.

Keywords: natural law, human rights

Suggested Citation

Finnis, John M., Natural Law: Practical Reason and Creative Information (November 6, 2019). Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 191106, 2019 This paper was written for and delivered at a conference on Natural Law, Human Rights and Chinese Traditional Culture, held in Beijing by the Law School and the Institute for Human Rights of the China University of Political Science and Law, on 26-2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3482096 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3482096

John M. Finnis (Contact Author)

University of Oxford ( email )

University College
Oxford, OX1 4BH
United Kingdom

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