Modern Natural Law Theory: Fuller and Finnis [No. 86 LECTURE]

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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

00:57 💡 Lon Fuller, like Dworkin, resisted Positivism and emphasized the connection between law and justice through procedural norms.
04:57 🔄 Contemporary natural law theory has seen a resurgence, with scholars like John Finnis advancing the New Natural Law, which incorporates moral principles without relying on theology.
09:58 🤝 Finnis reconciles positivist insights with natural law by considering the perspectives of well-socialized citizens in a just political community when studying the law's legitimacy and connection to morality.

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[andresfelipesuccar]

it is Saint Thomas, Young men, not just "Thomas".

[kevinpulliam]

Boo. We want teleology back. It’s the only way to solve the mind body problem