Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1981
Publication Information
26 Cath. Law. 278 (1980-1981)
Abstract
John Finnis has contributed most significantly to our understanding of how "practical reasonableness"' has affected creation and evaluation of human law. The main objective of a theory of natural law is to show how sound laws are to be derived from principles based on reason. It is true, as Finnis points out, that "the affirmation that 'unjust laws are not law' . . is [generally] a subordinate theorem" of natural law theory. Nevertheless, the experience of the past half century requires that we examine seriously, as Finnis has, the moral obligation of the unjust law.
Recommended Citation
Charles E. Rice,
The Problem of Unjust Laws,
26 Cath. Law. 278 (1980-1981).
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Comments
Reprinted with permission of the Catholic Lawyer.