Includes bibliographical references and index.

Value : a menu of questions / Joseph Raz -- Finnis on well-being / Roger Crisp -- Reasoning about the human good, and the role of the public philosopher / John Haldane -- On the most fundamental principle of morality / Joseph Boyle -- What is natural law like? / Jeremy Waldron -- Intention and side-effects : John Finnis and Elizabeth Anscombe / Luke Gormally -- Intention and side-effects : the mens rea for murder / Anthony Kenny -- John Finnis on Thomas Aquinas on human action / Kevin L. Flannery -- On moral philosophy and kinds of human actions / Cristóbel Orrego -- Finnis on justice / John Gardner -- Retributivism in the spirit of Finnis / Matthew H. Kramer -- The nature of limited government / Leslie Green -- Pure perfectionism and the limits of paternalism / Christopher Tollefsen -- 'Lawful mercy' in Measure for measure / Jacqueline Tasioulas and John Tasioulas -- The basis for being a subject of rights : the natural law position / Patrick Lee -- Constitutional and other persons / Gerard V. Bradley -- Bioethics after Finnis / Anthony Fisher -- A new father for the law and ethics of medicine / John Keown -- Value, practice, and idea / N. E. Simmonds -- The irony of law / Timothy Endicott -- Ideas of easy virtue / Timothy Macklem -- Law and its theory : a question of priorities / Julie Dickson -- Finnis on legal and moral obligation / Maris Köpcké Tinture -- Constitutional principle in the laws of the commonwealth / Richard Ekins -- Intention and the allocation of risk / Neil M. Gorsuch -- The right to religious liberty and the coercion of belief : a note on Dignitatis humanae / Thomas Pink -- Natural law and the transcendent source of human fulfillment / Germain Grisez -- Reflections and responses / John Finnis.