¿Qué tipo de bien es John Finnis? Un estudio sobre el bien personal y común en Natural Law and Natural Rights.

John Finnis' Natural Law and Natural Rights has significantly impacted the field of general jurisprudence in important ways. Finnis' thesis restored to some extent the place of natural law jurisprudence to more prominence than it had enjoyed for at least five decades. Yet, Finnis' restoration was more than a resuscitation of the classical case for a natural law that was greater than and in fact included human positive law. In academic and popular discourse, the approach of Finnis and his collaborators and disciples is «new» natural law. This article focuses on the beginning and foundation of natural law (classical and «new»): the concept of «good» (both individual and common) in Natural Law and Natural Rights. The definition of this concept and its role in the primary precepts of natural law is fundamental to all future arguments over and elaborations of natural law. Part I highlights the greatest contribution of the book to the defense of natural law jurisprudence: the defense of the objectivity of the good. Part II explores Finnis' understanding of the concept of good and, in particular, the ways in which it reinterprets or departs from Aquinas and Aristotle. Part III traces how these differences affect the work's understanding of the common good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]