1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003803439707536

Autore

Goncourt, Edmond : Huot de

Titolo

Pages retrouvées / [par] Edmond et Jules de Goncourt ; préface de Gustave Geofroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Charpentier, 1886

Descrizione fisica

XIX, 331 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

848

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973354403321

Autore

Vitoria Francisco de <1486?-1546.>

Titolo

Reflection on homicide & Commentary on Summa theologiae IIa-IIae Q. 64 (Thomas Aquinas) / / Francisco de Vitoria ; translated from the Latin with an introduction and notes by John P. Doyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, : Marquette University Press, [1997]

ISBN

0-87462-972-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; ; no. 34

Altri autori (Persone)

DoyleJohn P. <1930->

VitoriaFrancisco de <1486?-1546.>

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint,  <1225?-1274.>

Disciplina

262.9/35

Soggetti

Homicide (Canon law)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes also English translation of Aquinas' Summa theologiae, IIa-IIae, Qu. 64.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-262) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

There are no more current topics of ethical debate than euthanasia, assisted suicide and abortion, more generally, the taking of innocent



human life, as well as the morality of capital punishment. Professor Doyle has made VitoriaÕs thorough analyses of this basic moral topic, still so much debated in our own times and so central to the Catholic moral tradition, available in Latin and in an accurate translation, along with a brief biography and a very helpful commentary. Certainly Vitoria did not say the last word on these issues. Some of his opinions suffer from his historical limits. For example, he discusses whether the state might permit a husband to kill his adulterous wife, but not whether it might permit a wife to kill an adulterous husband! On a few points he seems to have changed his own mind. Nevertheless, the penetrating clarity of his moral reasoning is for the most part still valid and highly instructive.  What is especially noteworthy is that Vitoria, although he had studied with the famous nominalist John Major, is genuinely a Thomist, not a nominalist, a voluntarist, or legalist. Although he does not neglect the role played by positive law in moral decision, he seeks always to ground his reasoning in the natural law as a participation in the Divine Law, that is, in the reasoned conformity of human action to the requirements of God-given human nature.  Professor Doyle has not merely contributed to historical scholarship by this fine publication, but to the solution of the grave moral problems of our times by making available to us this model of sound ethical reasoning." - From the Foreword by Benedict M. Ashley, OP, STM.