¹ Possibly there is an allusion to the notion of the intrinsic goodness of justice in a sentence on p. 79: ‘I admit that there are persons in every society who have a passionate interest in justice, but are without hope for themselves in pursuing it.’ [i.e., are not pursuing it for the sake of any consequences.] But for all that is said here, this ‘passionate interest’ might be like a ‘passionate interest’ in butterflies, merely a personal taste or inclination, a quirk, not a love of what is, above all else, worthwhile in human life.

² The Heythrop Journal (Oct. 1970), pp. 365‐387, esp. p. 367.

I am very much indebted to this and other papers by Dr. Finnis, as well as to private conversation, for much of the argument of this paper, especially in the following pages.

³ We are not speaking of divine beatitude here, nor of the possibility that any human happiness must be somewhat imperfect in this life.

³ Cf. Gauthier & Jotif, Commentary on N.E., at IV. 3.