- Title Pages
- PREFACE
- List of Abbreviations
- The Cover Picture
- Introduction
-
1 Human Rights and Their Enforcement -
2 Duties to Oneself in Kant -
3 Rawls's A Theory of Justice -
4 Distributive Justice and the Bottom Line -
5 Limited Government -
6 Virtue and the Constitution -
7 Migration Rights -
8 Boundaries -
9 Nationality and Alienage -
10 Hart's Philosophy of Punishment -
11 The Restoration of Retribution -
12 Retribution: Punishment's Formative Aim -
13 War and Peace in the Natural Law Tradition -
14 Euthanasia and Justice -
15 Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life -
16 Euthanasia and the Law -
17 C.S. Lewis and Test-Tube Babies -
18 The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion -
19 Justice for Mother and Child -
20 Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good -
21 Law, Morality, and ‘Sexual Orientation’ -
22 Sex and Marriage: Some Myths and Reasons - Bibliography of the Works of John Finnis
- Other Works Cited
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life
Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life
- Chapter:
- (p.242) 15 Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life
- Source:
- Human Rights and Common Good
- Author(s):
John Finnis
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
An Economic Analysis of Law, as expounded by Posner, cannot provide moral criteria. Though economics usefully identifies side effects, economic reasoning is defeated by the incommensurables involved in overall consequences of choices. The confusions involved in Dworkin's account of the value of human life, and in the minority judgments in the US Supreme Court in Cruzan's case (1990), and the dualism in these accounts is critiqued. Undignified conditions are to be distinguished from lack of human dignity. Death can reasonably be accepted as a side effect. The meaning of solidarity with and fidelity to the very dependent elderly is explored.
Keywords: Economic Analysis of Law, Posner, Dworkin, value of life, dualism, intention, side effects, solidarity, dignity, undignified
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- Title Pages
- PREFACE
- List of Abbreviations
- The Cover Picture
- Introduction
-
1 Human Rights and Their Enforcement -
2 Duties to Oneself in Kant -
3 Rawls's A Theory of Justice -
4 Distributive Justice and the Bottom Line -
5 Limited Government -
6 Virtue and the Constitution -
7 Migration Rights -
8 Boundaries -
9 Nationality and Alienage -
10 Hart's Philosophy of Punishment -
11 The Restoration of Retribution -
12 Retribution: Punishment's Formative Aim -
13 War and Peace in the Natural Law Tradition -
14 Euthanasia and Justice -
15 Economics, Justice, and the Value of Life -
16 Euthanasia and the Law -
17 C.S. Lewis and Test-Tube Babies -
18 The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion -
19 Justice for Mother and Child -
20 Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good -
21 Law, Morality, and ‘Sexual Orientation’ -
22 Sex and Marriage: Some Myths and Reasons - Bibliography of the Works of John Finnis
- Other Works Cited
- Acknowledgements
- Index
