Aquinas, Aristotle, and the power of the common good
By: Mary M. Keys.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Political and social views.; Aristotle -- Political and social views.; Common good.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Aquinas? : reconsidering and reconceiving the common good; title: The promise and problem of the common good : contemporary experience and classical articulation; title: Why Aquinas : centrality of the concept and focus on foundations; title: An overview of the argument, by parts and chapters; title: Contemporary responses to the problem of the common good : three Anglo-American theories; title: Liberal deontologism : contractarian common goods in Rawls's theory of justice; title: Communitarianism or civic republicanism : Sandel against common-sense "otherness"; title: A third way? : Galston on the common goods of liberal pluralism; title: Unearthing and appropriating Aristotle's foundations : from three Anglo-American theorists back to Thomas Aquinas; title: Aristotelianism and political-philosophic foundations, old and new; title: Aristotle's three political-philosophic foundations in Thomas Aquinas's thought; title: The first foundation and Aquinas's Commentary : human nature as "political and social" in politics; title: Reinforcing the foundations : Aquinas on the problem of political virtue and regime-centered political science; title: The second foundation and Aquinas's commentary : human beings and citizens in politics; title: Faults in the foundations : the uncommented politics and the problem of regime particularity; title: Politics pointing beyond the polis and the politeia : Aquinas's new foundations; title: Finishing the foundations and beginning to build : Aquinas on human action and excellence as social, civic, and religious community, common good, and goodness of will; title: Natural sociability and the extension of the human act; title: Cardinal virtues as social and civic virtues with a divine exemplar; title: Remodeling the moral edifice : Aquinas and Aristotelian magnanimity; title: Aristotle on magnanimity as virtue; title: Aquinas's commentary on the magnanimity of the Nicomachean ethics; title: The Summa theologiae on magnanimity and some "virtues of acknowledged dependence"; title: Remodeling the moral edifice : Aquinas and Aristotelian legal justice; title: Aristotle on legal justice; title: Aquinas's commentary on legal justice in the Nicomachean ethics; title: Legal justice and natural law in the Summa theologiae; title: Aquinas's two pedagogies : human law and the good of moral virtue; title: Aquinas's negative narrative, or how law can curb moral vice; title: Beyond reform school : law's positive pedagogy of virtue according to Aquinas; title: Universality and particularity, law and liberty; title: Thomistic legal pedagogy and liberal-democratic polities; title: Theological virtue and Thomistic political theory; title: The problematic political promotion of theological virtue; title: Infused moral virtue and civic legal justice; title: Thomistic and Aristotelian moderation for the common good.