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Natural law and practical reason : a Thomist view of moral autonomy / Martin Rhonheimer ; translated from the German by Gerald Malsbary.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Moral philosophy and moral theology ; no. 1.Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2000Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 620 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0823219798
  • 9780823219797
  • 082321978X
  • 9780823219780
Other title:
  • Thomist view of moral autonomy
Uniform titles:
  • Natur als Grundlage der Moral. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171.2 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1249 .R4713 2000
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. The Law of the Practical Reason: Methodology and Conceptual Foundations -- 1. Natural Law and the Practical Reason as the Subject of Philosophical Ethics -- 2. The Concept of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas: A Theory of the Practical Reason -- Part II. Personal Autonomy, Natural Law, and Moral Objectivity: In-Depth Studies -- Preliminary Note -- 3. The Model of "Autonomous Morality" -- 4. The Concept of Autonomy -- 5. Participated Autonomy: Toward a Metaphysics and Anthropology of the Natural Law -- 6. Natural Dynamics of the Reason: The Epistemological Structure of the Natural Law -- 7. The Normative Function of the Reason and Its Fulfillment in Moral Virtue -- 8. "Teleological Ethics" (I): Utilitarianism and the Deontology /Teleology Distinction -- 9. "Teleological Ethics" (II): Physicalism and Hidden Deontology -- 10. The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Practical Reason -- 11. The Objectivity of Human Action: Detailed Treatment of Some Classic Problems -- 12. The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Natural Law -- 13. Some Philosophical Conclusions - and an Orientation for Moral Theology -- Author's Postscript to the English Edition.
Summary: This work critically discusses, and seeks to overcome, both misunderstandings in the traditional neo-Thomistic view of natural law and unjustified claims of some currents in Catholic moral theology in trying to find new, yet problematic understandings of moral autonomy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-616) and index.

Introduction -- Part I. The Law of the Practical Reason: Methodology and Conceptual Foundations -- 1. Natural Law and the Practical Reason as the Subject of Philosophical Ethics -- 2. The Concept of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas: A Theory of the Practical Reason -- Part II. Personal Autonomy, Natural Law, and Moral Objectivity: In-Depth Studies -- Preliminary Note -- 3. The Model of "Autonomous Morality" -- 4. The Concept of Autonomy -- 5. Participated Autonomy: Toward a Metaphysics and Anthropology of the Natural Law -- 6. Natural Dynamics of the Reason: The Epistemological Structure of the Natural Law -- 7. The Normative Function of the Reason and Its Fulfillment in Moral Virtue -- 8. "Teleological Ethics" (I): Utilitarianism and the Deontology /Teleology Distinction -- 9. "Teleological Ethics" (II): Physicalism and Hidden Deontology -- 10. The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Practical Reason -- 11. The Objectivity of Human Action: Detailed Treatment of Some Classic Problems -- 12. The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Natural Law -- 13. Some Philosophical Conclusions - and an Orientation for Moral Theology -- Author's Postscript to the English Edition.

This work critically discusses, and seeks to overcome, both misunderstandings in the traditional neo-Thomistic view of natural law and unjustified claims of some currents in Catholic moral theology in trying to find new, yet problematic understandings of moral autonomy.

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