The ends of the moral virtues and the first principles of practical reason in Thomas Aquinas
By: Dominic Farrell
Series: Analecta Gregoriana -- 318; Analecta Gregoriana -- 318.
Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9788878392304
Subjects: Cardinal virtues; History of doctrines; Practical reason; Reason; History
Notes: "Premio Bellarmino Facoltà Filosofia."

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Pontificia Universitate Gregoriana, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-340) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The historical background to Aquinas' position : Aristotelian practical wisdom and the principles of practical reason in early thirteenth-century theology; title: Aquinas' position on natural reason and the ends of the moral virtues; title: Reading Aquinas' position; title: The order of love and the common ends of the moral virtues; title: Our natural knowledge of God as the end of the moral virtues; title: The ends of the moral virtues and deliberation : the Decalogue, natural law, and virtue.