PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (FALL 06)

TEXTS: 1. Robert P. George, Clash of Orthodoxies

                  2. Andrew Altman, Arguing About Law

                  3. Photocopied Selections from Osgniach, Philosophic Roots of Law and Order

                  4. Internet Assignments

  SYLLABUS: Philosophy of Law

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Links for Additional Reading Assignments:

                                SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is the will moved of necessity by its object?

                                 # 1. Roe v. Wade: http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Roe/

                                       #2. from Hobbes's Leviathon:  CHAPTER XIII OF THE NATURAL COND

                                                         #3. from Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government (read Chapters II, III, VII, and IX):

                                        http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtreat.htm   

                                 #4 Selections from St. Thomas on Law: selectionsonnaturallaw.htm

                                           #5. Aquinas on the Ten Commandments:  http://www.newadvent.org/summa/210008.htm

                                    (ST, I-II, q. 100, a. 8)  

                                  #6. More from Aquinas:  q.94, aa. 4-6.htm                                                          

                                          #7. Still more from Aquinas:  A. SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Human law  B. SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The power of human law C. SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Change in laws

                                          #8. Aquinas on Free Choice and Natural Inclinations:   A.  SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is the will moved to anything naturally?  B. SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is the will moved of necessity by its object?

                                                        #9. #1. A Short Overview of Germain Grisez's Interpretation and Development of Aquinas:  http://www.crvp.org/book/Series01/I-11/chapter_xi.htm

                                          #10. Modes of Responsibility (Implications of the First Principle of Morality): MODES OF RESPONSIBILITY

                                                        #11. John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty (Chapter 4):  http://www.utilitarianism.com/ol/four.html

                                                        #12. Lawrence v. Texas:  http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=us/000/02-102.html

                                          #13. from Dignitatis Humanae:  DECLARATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

            OTHER RELEVANT READINGS

                                #1.  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's Article on Natural Law by Mark Murphy:  The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)                                             

                                        #2. A Reading on Scotus and Ockham:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/practical-reason-med/

                                  #3. Grisez's List of Modes of Responsibility (Intermediate norms between

                                      the general moral criterion and very specific norms): 

                                 #4. On different ways of interpreting the constitution:  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/interp.html

                                #5. Arisotle, Politics, Books I-III:  http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.1.one.html;   http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.2.two.html ; http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.3.three.html

                                      #6. Miller v. California: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=us/413/15.html

                                       #7. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9506/articles/bork.html  

c. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004735  d. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/maggiegallagher/printmg20040108.shtml