Title: The perspective of the acting person : essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy /
Authors: Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-; Murphy, William F.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Thomas,; Ethics, Medieval.
Contents: 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.