Aquinas, Feminism, and the Common Good

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Index ‘‘anthropological constants,’’ 4, 27–28, 160n8, 168nn84, 85, 87 anthropology. See anthropology of Thomas Aquinas; feminist theological hermeneutics and anthropology ; human functioning capabilities anthropology of Thomas Aquinas, 45–49, 82–84, 96–100; and Aristotle ’s hierarchical order of creation , 47–48, 82–83; and central importance of the common good, 59–60, 71; creation and humanity in, 47–49; and dualistic methodology, 97–98; and embodiment, 98–99; feminist retrieval of, 46, 86, 96–100; and free will/agency, 99; and literal use of scripture, 98; and participation in government, 99–100; relationality and extreme individualism , 99, 187n31; and the transcendent, 100; women, men, and reason, 48–49, 84, 173n14; women and, 46–49, 209 83–84, 97–98; women and hierarchical order of creation, 47–48; women and men in God’s image, 48–49, 84; and women’s biological roles and ‘‘special nature,’’ 97–98, 186nn27, 28 apocalypticism, 22–23, 24, 166n77 Aquino, Maria Pilar, 33 Archibald, Katherine, 44 Aristotle: anthropology of, 4, 66, 82–83; and Aquinas, 43–45, 52, 66, 82–83, 84, 183n160; and Christian relation to natural world/creation, 43–45; on goodness and the highest good, 52; on hierarchy, 44–45, 47, 173n6; on human functioning capabilities and virtues, 4, 35 Augustine: and Neoplatonic view of creation, 43; on peace and just war, 181n150; on society and the state, 60, 177n54; and Western presumptions about women, 29 210
Index Baily, Mary Ann, 139 Barth, Karl, 167n81 Baum, Gregory, 160n12 Benhabib, Seyla, 168n85 breast cancer and black women, 147–50 Brock, Dan, 192n28 Cahill, Lisa Sowle: and anthropological constants, 168n85; on anthropological universals and women’s lives, 30–31; on Aquinas and natural law, 178n85; on Aquinas’s belief in reason, 114; on Aquinas’s ethical writings, 49; on Aquinas’s political thought, 45; on a feminist retrieval of Aquinas, 33–34; on Nussbaum’s human functioning capabilities, 37; on Ruether, 164n60 Callahan, Daniel, 134, 137–38 Cannon, Katie Geneva, 165n68 capital punishment and the common good, 77, 79–81 Carter, Jimmy, 136 Chapman, Audrey, 152–53 Chenu, Marie-Dominic, 106 Chopp, Rebecca, 11, 125–26, 190n85 Christ, Carol, 158n6 Cochran, Carl, 137 common good. See common good in the thought of Thomas Aquinas ; feminist retrieval of the common good; feminist retrieval of Aquinas’s common good; health care and the retrieved common good; justice and the common good common good in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, 42–84; and action /contemplation balance, 55–56; and Aquinas’s anthropology , 45–49, 59–60, 71, 83–84, 86, 96–100; and Aristotle, 43– 45, 52, 66, 82–83, 84, 183n160; and Augustine, 60, 177n54; and the body, 57, 112– 13, 176n47; and capital punishment , 77, 79–81; central importance of, 59–60, 69–70, 71, 73–74; and contemplation of truth, 54–55; distribution/ beneficiaries of, 75, 180n122; and embodiment, 98–99, 105, 110, 113; and equality, 77–79, 181n140; examples of, 77, 79–82; the family and the church, 69; as formal moral norm, 58–69, 83, 116–19; and free choice/free will, 52–54, 56– 57, 76–77, 79, 181n127; and God, 44–45, 53, 54, 59, 67, 76, 100–109, 172n2, 174n31, 175nn37, 38, 176n50; and the good (generally), 50–52, 100– 109; and grace, 83, 182n157; and happiness, 53, 57, 112–13, 176n47; and hierarchy, 44–45; and human goodness, 52–58, 109–16; and human physical requirements , 65–66; and ‘‘is’’/ ‘‘ought’’ relationship, 67–68, 178n89, 179n90; and justice, 74–79, 124–27, 180n122, 181nn126, 127, 140; justice and the moral virtues, 75, 76, 181n126, 182n158; justice and the will/choice, 76–77, 79, Index
211 181n127; and killing during war, 77, 81, 181n150; and the law, 45, 68–69; linked and specific meanings of, 67–68; and natural law, 66, 111, 178n85, 179n90; and the natural world, 43–45; and norms of nonmaleficence /fairness, 77; and oppression of individuals, 69–70, 73–74; and ‘‘perfection-language ,’’ 103–5; and political authority , 45, 172n3; and private property, 77, 81–82; and prudence , 120–24; and relationship between individual/common good, 58–59, 69–77, 83, 119–24; and the social human being, 57–58, 60–61, 63–64, 66–67, 176n52; and society, 60–67, 176n52, 178n73; and society’s two purposes/ends, 63–66; the state and proper government , 58–59, 60–63, 71, 72–73, 83, 179n98; the temporal common good and necessities...