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Wisdom, law, and virtue : essays in Thomistic ethics /

This title focuses on morals, how human beings should live their lives. The essays included treat the history of philosophy as a development that proceeds by deepening appreciation of basic questions rather than the constant replacement of one worldview by another.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, ©2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Moral philosophy and moral theology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Universal Considerations
  • Wisdom and Human Life: the Natural and the Supernatural
  • Wisdom as Foundational Ethical Theory in St. Thomas Aquinas
  • St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Human Dignity
  • Truth and Happiness
  • Antimodern, Ultramodern, Postmodern: A Plea For The Perennial
  • Is Thomas Aquinas a Spiritual Hedonist?
  • Is Liberty the Criterion in Morals?
  • The Will and Its Act
  • The Real Distinction Between Intellect and Will
  • ST. Thomas, James Keenan, and the Will
  • ST. Thomas and the Causes of Free Choice
  • St. Thomas and the First Cause of Moral Evil
  • Natural Law
  • St. Thomas, Our Natural Lights, and the Moral Order
  • Jacques Maritain and the Philosophy of Cooperation
  • Natural Law and the First Act of Freedom: Maritain Revisited
  • Jean Porter on Natural Law: Thomistic Notes
  • Legal Justice
  • ST. Thomas, the Common Good, and the Love of Persons
  • St. Thomas, John Finnis, and the Political Good
  • Thomas Aquinas, Gerard Bradley, and the Death Penalty
  • Death in the Setting of Divine Wisdom: The Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Suicide as a Belligerent Tactic: Thomistic Reflections
  • Various Virtues
  • Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas, and the Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy and Spirituality: Cultivating a Virtue
  • St. Thomas and the Ontology of Prayer
  • St. Thomas, Lying, and Venial Sin
  • Communion with the Tradition: For the Believer Who Is a Philosopher
  • Methodological Postscript
  • "Obiectum": Notes on the Invention of a Word
  • St. Thomas and Moral Taxonomy.