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Wisdom, law, and virtue : essays in Thomistic ethics
- Title
- Wisdom, law, and virtue : essays in Thomistic ethics / Lawrence Dewan.
- Author
- Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-2015
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BJ255.T5 D49 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 690 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The focus of this book is morals - how human beings should live their lives. For Dewan (and Thomas Aquinas) "morals" is "the journey of the rational creature toward God."" "Written over a period of more than thirty years, the essays collected here treat both perennial issues in philosophy and such current questions as suicide as a weapon of war, the death penalty, and lying."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Moral philosophy & moral theology
- Uniform Title
- Moral philosophy and moral theology
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-668) and index.
- Contents
- Wisdom and human life: the natural and the supernatural -- Wisdom as foundational ethical theory in St. Thomas Aquins -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas, and the philosophy of religion --Philosophy and spirituality: cultivating a virtue -- St. Thomas, lying, and venial sin -- Communion with the tradition: for the believer who is a philosopher -- "Obiectum": notes on the invention of a word -- St. Thomas and moral taxonomy.
- ISBN
- 9780823227969
- 0823227960
- LCCN
- 2007046317
- 2570384
- OCLC
- ocn154762676
- 154762676
- SCSB-1465813
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library