Lex Christianorum

T HE NATURAL LAW IS INTENDED to be man's guide to a natural perfection, and this regardless of time, place, and circumstance.* In parti...

A CCORDING TO JOHN FINNIS THERE IS a division between the advocates of the lex pure poenalis theory (whose representative we might make Suar...

J OHN FINNIS ACCUSES ALL advocates of purely penal law* of trading in fictions, a "comedy of fictions," specifically fictions that...

I N HANDLING THE TOPIC OF OBLIGATION, John Finnis addresses some subsidiary issues. One of those has to do with defining the obligation tha...

A PROMISE IS NOT A MONOLITHIC CONCEPT. There is variability in promises, differences in dignity in promises, as it were. From resolutions...

W HAT IS IT THAT WE MEAN BY "OBLIGATION"? There is not a language in the world that does not include this notion, though the vario...