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Thomas Aquinas on moral wrongdoing /
Medieval thinkers were both puzzled and fascinated by the capacity of human beings to do what is morally wrong. In this book, Colleen McCluskey offers the first comprehensive examination of Thomas Aquinas' explanation for moral wrongdoing. Her discussion takes in Aquinas' theory of human n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Metaphysical Foundations
- Account of Human Nature
- The Process of Human Action
- Necessitation and Freedom
- 2. Evil as Privation
- The Ontological Status of Evil
- Objections to the Privation Theory
- Moral Goodness and Moral Appraisal
- Return to Privation
- 3. Aquinas's Account of Moral Wrongdoing: General Points and Defects in the Intellect
- Some General Distinctions
- The Roles of Will and Intellect in Wrong Actions
- Account of Voluntariness
- Wrongdoing That Originates in the Intellect
- 4. Aquinas's Account of Moral Wrongdoing: Defects in the Sensory Appetite
- Wrongdoing That Originates in the Sensory Appetite
- Practical Reasoning in Wrongdoing Originating in the Passions
- Weakness of Will
- 5. Aquinas's Account of Moral Wrongdoing: Defects in the Will
- Wrongdoing That Originates in the Will
- The Underlying Mechanism of Deliberate Wrongdoing
- Distinguishing between Evil and Ordinary Wrongdoing
- Is Aquinas's Account of Deliberate Wrongdoing Too Broad?
- Can Human Beings Perform Evil Simply for the Sake of Evil?
- 6. The Vices in Aquinas's Moral Psychology
- The Nature and Acquisition of Habits
- The Vices in Summa theologiae
- The Tradition of the Capital Vices
- The Capital Vices and Deliberate Wrongdoing.