Equality & Differences
Professor John Finnis
It is a privilege to be asked to speak in honour of Jerry Cohen, here with you in the Chabad Society tonight. I last saw him to speak to, by chance, shortly before he died; before that our main occasions for meeting had been in the supervision of the doctoral studies (on Thomas Aquinas on friendship) of a young scholar now teaching political philosophy in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. But Jerry Cohen remains one of the very, very few people I have met in over 50 years in Oxford who has said to me, and more than once, on a casual Oxford social occasion, in friendly conversational terms and… Read More »