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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Ethics, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Perspective of the Acting Person introduces readers to one of the most important and provocative thinkers in contemporary moral philosophy.
- 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 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- "Martin Rhonheimer publications": p. 317-323.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-316) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780813216980
- 0813216982
- OCLC:
- 707926472
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