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This noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
This noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Though this history might seem irrelevant to twenty-first-century life, Jean Porter shows that the scholastic approach to the natural law still has much to contribute to the contemporary discussion of Christian ethics. Aquinas and his interlocutors provide a way of thinking about the natural law that is distinctively theological while at the same time remaining open to other intellectual perspectives, including those of science.
In the course of her work, Porter examines the scholastics' assumptions and beliefs about nature, Aquinas's account of happiness, and the overarching claim that reason can generate moral norms. Ultimately, Porter argues that a Thomistic theory of the natural law is well suited to provide a starting point for developing a more nuanced account of the relationship between specific beliefs and practices. While Aquinas's approach to the natural law may not provide a system of ethical norms that is both universally compelling and detailed enough to be practical, it does offer something that is arguably more valuable — namely, a way of reflecting theologically on the phenomenon of human morality.
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ean Porter is John A. O'Brien Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the author of "Moral Action and Christian Ethics" (Cambridge).
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In this book, I will set out a theological account of the natural law, taking my starting points from medieval natural law theorists (especially, but not only, Aquinas) and developing them into a constructive moral theory within a context of contemporary perspectives and concerns. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prerational nature, radical consequentialism, prerational components, infused cardinal virtues, subjective natural rights, modern natural lawyers, natural law reflection, scholastic reflection, basic human inclinations, distinctively human way, scholastic concept, terrestrial happiness, paradigmatic kinds, peut jamais faire, right practical reason, nonrational creatures, traditional moral rules, discrete goods, scholastic approach, distinctively human form, categorical norms, natural law precepts, fundamental inclinations, lawlike character, perfected science Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Notre Dame, Cambridge University Press, New York, Thomas Aquinas, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Grand Rapids, John Finnis, Georgetown University Press, Catholic University of America Press, Germain Grisez, Philippa Foot, University of Chicago Press, Pamela Hall, Reasonably Vicious, Scholastic Humanism, Stephen Pope, The Morality of Happiness, Theological Studies, Which Rationality, Whose Justice, Golden Rule, Lee Yearley, Ordinary Gloss, Ruling Passions New!
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- Natural Law (Vol. 1) (The International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory) by John Finnis on 12 pages
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- Reasonably Vicious by Professor Candace Vogler on 7 pages
- Women and Human Development by Martha C. Nussbaum on 7 pages
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