Ethik, Recht und Politik

This collection of central essays on the foundations of normative ethics, on various questions of legal philosophy and political philosophy offers a representative cross-section of the work of the internationally renowned philosopher John Finnis. The author, who has been instrumental in the modernisation of classical natural law theory, not only enters into a dialogue with the philosophical tradition (above all Thomas Aquinas), but also discusses fundamental questions and problems of the justification of norms and applied ethics with well-known contemporary philosophers such as Peter Singer and Jürgen Habermas.