Natural law and practical reason : a Thomist view of moral autonomy /
Thomist view of moral autonomy
Martin Rhonheimer ; translated from the German by Gerald Malsbary.
- First edition.
- xxii, 620 pages ; 22 cm.
- Moral philosophy and moral theology, no. 1 1527-523X ; .
- Moral philosophy and moral theology, no. 1. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-616) and index.
Introduction -- The Law of the Practical Reason: Methodology and Conceptual Foundations -- Natural Law and the Practical Reason as the Subject of Philosophical Ethics -- The Concept of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas: A Theory of the Practical Reason -- Personal Autonomy, Natural Law, and Moral Objectivity: In-Depth Studies -- Preliminary Note -- The Model of "Autonomous Morality" -- The Concept of Autonomy -- Participated Autonomy: Toward a Metaphysics and Anthropology of the Natural Law -- Natural Dynamics of the Reason: The Epistemological Structure of the Natural Law -- The Normative Function of the Reason and Its Fulfillment in Moral Virtue -- "Teleological Ethics" (I): Utilitarianism and the Deontology /Teleology Distinction -- "Teleological Ethics" (II): Physicalism and Hidden Deontology -- The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Practical Reason -- The Objectivity of Human Action: Detailed Treatment of Some Classic Problems -- The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Natural Law -- Some Philosophical Conclusions - and an Orientation for Moral Theology -- Author's Postscript to the English Edition. Part I. 1. 2. Part II. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
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.