Living the good life
Subtitle: a beginner's Thomistic ethics
By: Steven J. Jensen
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press; The Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780813221458
Subjects: Medieval Ethics; Catholic authors; Christian ethics
Description: "Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery and happiness. The book contrasts the thought of Aquinas with popular views, such as moral relativism, values clarification, utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, and situation ethics. Following the Socratic dictum 'know thyself, ' Steven J. Jensen investigates the interior workings of the human mind, revealing the interplay of reason, will, and emotions. ... Beginners of philosophy will gain access to a key aspect of Aquinas's thought, namely, that true happiness is realized not in the animal life of passion and greed but only in the reasonable pursuit of human goods, in which we find true peace and rest from the distractions of this world."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethics and the good life; title: Reason and the emotions; title: Conscience and choice; title: Loving and choosing; title: Doing right and desiring right; title: Virtue and the emotions; title: Justice; title: Injustice; title: Intrinsically evil actions; title: Virtue and truth; title: Practical wisdom; title: Ethics and knowledge; title: Ethics and happiness.