TY - BOOK AU - Rhonheimer,Martin TI - Natural law and practical reason: a Thomist view of moral autonomy T2 - Moral philosophy and moral theology, SN - 0823219798 AV - BJ1249 .R4713 2000 U1 - 171.2 22 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Thomas, KW - Christian ethics KW - Catholic authors KW - Natural law N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -