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Wisdom, Law, and Virtue: Essays in Thomistic Ethics

Wisdom, Law, and Virtue: Essays in Thomistic Ethics

Dewan, Lawrence

Hardcover

Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology

PhilosophyGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0823227960
ISBN13: 9780823227969
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Feb 15 2007
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.36
Height: 1.77 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.17
Language: English

The focus of this book is morals--how human beings should live their lives. For Dewan (and Thomas Aquinas) morals is the journey of the rational creature toward God.

While philosophical considerations are central here, Christian revelation and its truth constitute an enveloping context. These essays treat the history of philosophy as a development that proceeds by deepening appreciation of basic questions rather than the constant replacement of one worldview by another. Thus, the author finds forebears in Plato and Aristotle, in Augustine and Boethius, and especially in Aquinas.

Written over a period of more than thirty years, the essays collected here treat both perennial issues in philosophy and such current questions as suicide as a weapon of war, the death penalty, and lying. Above all, they present the wisdom, the sapiential vision, that makes morals possible.

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