Acts Amid Precepts: The Aristotelian Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Theory
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Overview
Although most theories of natural law recognize moral absolutes, there is not much agreement, even among natural law theorists, about how to identify them. Flannery argues that in order to understand and determine the morality (or immorality) of a human action, it must be considered in relation to the organized system of human practices within which it is performed. In order to depict this structure and to explain how it affects the analysis of action, the author investigates a number of issues that have attracted the attention of Thomistic and Aristotelian scholarship. He examines the nature of practical reason, its relationship with theoretical reason, the derivation of lower from higher ethical principles, the incommensurability of human goods, the relationship between will and intellect, and the principle of double effect.
- Title: Acts Amid Precepts: The Aristotelian Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Theory
- Author: Kevin L. Flannery
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2001
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 › Summa theologica--Prima secundae--Quaestio 94; Ethics, Medieval; Christian ethics › Catholic authors; Aristotle
- ISBNs: 0567088154, 9780567088154
- Resource ID: LLS:CTSMDPRCPTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
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