The perspective of the acting person : essays in the renewal of thomistic moral philosophy / Martin Rhonheimer ; edited with an introduction by William F. Murphy, Jr.

Author/creator Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Other author Murphy, William F., Jr.
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxxix, 329 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

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.
Bibliography note"Martin Rhonheimer publications": p. 317-323.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index.
LCCN 2007015719
ISBN9780813215112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0813215110 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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