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Acknowledgments “Is Christian Morality Reasonable? On the Difference between Secular and Christian Humanism” originally appeared in Annales Theologici 15, no. 2 (2001): 529–49, and is reprinted by permission. “‘Intrinsically Evil Acts’ and the Moral Viewpoint: Clarifying a Central Teaching of Veritatis Splendor” originally appeared in The Thomist 58, no. 1 (1994): 1–39, and is reprinted by permission. “Intentional Actions and the Meaning of Object: A Reply to Richard McCormick ” originally appeared in The Thomist 59, no. 2 (1995): 279–311, and is reprinted by permission. “Practical Reason and the ‘Naturally Rational’: On the Doctrine of the Natural Law as a Principle of Praxis in Thomas Aquinas” was originally published as “Praktische Vernunft und das ‘von Natur aus Vernünftige.’ Zur Lehre von der Lex naturalis als Prinzip der Praxis bei Thomas von Aquin,” Theologie und Philosophie 75 (2000): 493–522. It was translated by Gerald Malsbary. “The Moral Significance of Pre-Rational Nature in Aquinas: A Reply to Jean Porter (and Stanley Hauerwas)” was originally published in The American Journal of Jurisprudence 48 (2003): 253–80, and is reprinted by permission. “The Cognitive Structure of the Natural Law and the Truth of Subjectivity” originally appeared in The Thomist 67, no. 1 (2003): 1–44, and is reprinted by permission. “The Perspective of the Acting Person and the Nature of Practical Reason: The ‘Object of the Human Act’ in Thomistic Anthropology of Action” was originally published in Nova et Vetera 2, no. 2 (2004): 461–516, and is reprinted by permission. It was translated from the Italian by Joseph T. Papa. “Practical Reason and the Truth of Subjectivity: The Self-Experience of the Moral Subject at the Roots of Metaphysics and Anthropology” was translated vii Gerald Malsbary from the Italian manuscript “Ragione practica e verità della soggettività: l’autoesperienza del soggeto morale alle radici della metafisica e dell’anthropologia.” The review of Jean Porter’s Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law was originally published in Studies in Christian Ethics 19, no. 3 (2006), and is reprinted by permission of SAGE publications. viii acknowledgments ...

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