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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455935503321

Autore

Rhonheimer Martin <1950->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8132-1698-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyWilliam F

Disciplina

171/.2

Soggetti

Ethics, Medieval

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

"Martin Rhonheimer publications": p. 317-323.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.