The Three Levels of Law’s Goodness and then One More: Exploring John Finnis’s Account of Good Juridical Reasons for Action

• Petar Popović ^[1]
  1. [1] Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

     Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

     Roma Capitale, Italia

     
• Localización: Persona y derecho: Revista de fundamentación de las Instituciones Jurídicas y de Derechos Humanos, ISSN 0211-4526, Nº. 83, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cuarenta años de la publicación de Natural Law and Natural Rights de John Finnis [II] (José Antonio Retamar, coord.)), págs. 521-552
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.15581/011.83.007
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  • español

    El artículo revisa, en la primera sección, los argumentos centrales del relato de John Finnis sobre la «bondad» de la ley. Una vez establecido que las premisas de estos argumentos están situadas en las tesis de Finnis sobre lo que constituyen buenas razones jurídicas para la acción, y sobre la «doble vida» de la ley, se exploran en detalle los tres niveles de bondad de la ley. En la segunda sección, el autor argumenta que la filosofía jurídica de Tomás de Aquino contiene otro nivel discreto de bondad jurídica relevante para la ley. Este nivel se presenta junto con una evaluación crítica de su armonía con la teoría de Finnis.

  • English

    The article revisits, in the first section, the core arguments of John Finnis’s account of law’s «goodness». Having established that the premises of these arguments are situated in Finnis’s theses on what constitutes good juridical reasons for action, and on law’s «double life», the three levels of law’s goodness are explored in detail. In the second section, the author argues that Aquinas’s juridical philosophy contains another discrete level of juridical goodness relevant to law. This level is then presented along with a critical assessment of its harmony with Finnis’s theory.

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