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Natural reason and natural law : an assessment of the Straussian criticisms of Thomas Aquinas /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carey, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene, OR : Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1 The Teleology of Natural Reason
  • ch. 1 Preliminary Considerations
  • Section A The Theological Context
  • Section b Natural Reason
  • Section c Prudence, Judgment, and Synderesis
  • Section d Law and the Ends of Human Action
  • ch. 2 The Case for Natural Law
  • Section A The First Principle of Practical Reason
  • Section b The Precepts of Natural Law
  • i. The order of natural inclinations
  • ii. Primary and secondary precepts
  • iii. Self-evidence
  • iv. Love of one's neighbor
  • v. Natural law and the moral precepts of the Decalogue
  • vi. Application of the precepts of natural law
  • Section c Obligation Explicated
  • i. Freedom of choice
  • ii. Is and Ought
  • iii. Conditional obligations
  • iv. Unconditional obligations
  • ch. 3 Reason Commanding
  • Section A Natural Law and Roman Catholicism
  • Section b The New Natural Law Theory
  • Section c Thomas Aquinas and Kant
  • Section d The Bonum Rationis
  • pt. 2 Straussian Criticisms
  • ch. 4 Criticisms Advanced by Leo Strauss
  • Section A Medieval Philosophy vs. Christian Scholasticism
  • Section b The Criticisms in Natural Right and History
  • Section c The Criticisms in "On Natural Law"
  • ch. 5 Criticisms Advanced by Harry Jaffa
  • Section A Thomas's Departures from Aristotle
  • Section b The Natural Desire for a Supernatural End
  • Section c Natural Law and the American Founding
  • ch. 6 Criticisms Advanced by Ernest Fortin
  • Section A Providence and Natural Law
  • Section b The Promulgation of Natural Law
  • Section c The Question of Punishment
  • ch. 7 Criticisms Advanced by Michael Zuckert
  • ch. 8 The Precept Commanding the Love and Worship of God
  • ch. 9 The Scope of Synderesis
  • Section A Synderesis as Natural
  • Section b Synderesis as Universal
  • i. Seth Benardete on obligation in Greek antiquity
  • ii. Douglas Kries on the acquisition of synderesis
  • iii. The feeling of right and wrong
  • iv. Synderesis in moral education
  • Section c Synderesis as Inerrant
  • Moral Absolutes
  • ch. 10 Rational Sociability
  • Section A Exotericism
  • Section b The Good of Others
  • Section c Philosophy and the Catholic Faith
  • pt. 3 Beyond Natural Law
  • ch. 11 Inconsistencies and Other Aberrations
  • Section A The Denial of Universal Rules
  • Section b Circumventing the Practical Syllogism
  • Section c Competence and Conscientiousness
  • Section d Science and Values
  • ch. 12 Philosophizing in the Shadow of Heidegger
  • Section A Nature and World
  • Section b Strauss's Struggle with Heidegger
  • i. Choice of ends
  • ii. Historicism
  • iii. The Struggle with Heidegger in Natural Right and History
  • iv. The Struggle with Heidegger in "Introduction to Existentialism"
  • Section c Toward a Thomistic Response to Heidegger
  • i. Problems in the Husserlian background
  • ii. The ontological difference between Being and beings
  • iii. Metaphysics and mysticism
  • iv. Logic, ontology, and theoria
  • v. Conscience phenomenologically considered
  • ch. 13 Natural Teleology Revalidated
  • ch. 14 Objections and Replies.