Normative Jurisprudence Quotes

“what are these basic goods? Finnis answers with a list (after disparaging the lists and the list-making tendency of other writers): knowledge, life itself (which includes the good of procreation), play (which includes leisure), religion (which includes nontheistic speculation on ultimate questions), aesthetic experience, friendship (which includes all aspects of sociability and intimacy), and practical reasonableness (which itself requires a degree of freedom with which to make basic life choices, to make a life plan, to decide what one should do).63”
― Robin West, Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction