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The perspective of the acting person essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy

Title
The perspective of the acting person [electronic resource] : essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy / Martin Rhonheimer ; edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy, Jr.
Author
Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.

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Murphy, William F.
Description
1 online resource (xxxix, 329 p.)
Uniform Title
Perspective of the acting person (Online)
Alternative Title
Perspective of the acting person (Online)
Subject
  • Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
  • Ethics, Medieval
Bibliography (note)
  • "Martin Rhonheimer publications": p. 317-323.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction / by William F. Murphy, Jr. -- Is Christian morality reasonable? : on the difference between secular and Christian humanism -- Norm-ethics, moral rationality, and the virtues : what's wrong with consequentialism? -- "Intrinsically evil acts" and the moral viewpoint : clarifying a central teaching of veritatis splendor -- Intentional actions and the meaning of object : a reply to Richard McCormick -- The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity -- Practical reason and the "naturally rational" : on the doctrine of the natural law as a principle of praxis in Thomas Aquinas -- The moral significance of pre-rational nature in Aquinas : a reply to Jean Porter (and Stanley Hauerwas) -- The cognitive structure of the natural law and the truth of subjectivity -- The perspective of the acting person and the nature of practical reason : the "object of the human act" in thomistic anthropology of action -- Practical reason and the truth of subjectivity : the self-experience of the moral subject at the roots of metaphysics and anthropology -- Review of Jean Porter's Nature as reason : a thomistic theory of the natural law.
LCCN
2007015719
OCLC
ssj0000472041
Author
Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Title
The perspective of the acting person [electronic resource] : essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy / Martin Rhonheimer ; edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy, Jr.
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
Bibliography
"Martin Rhonheimer publications": p. 317-323.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Murphy, William F.
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