Wisdom, Law, and Virtue: Essays in Thomistic Ethics

Previous Publication

Previous Publication This book is a collection of papers that have been previously published or presented at conferences. Chapter 1: Wisdom and Human Life: The Natural and the Supernatural Read at the Colloquium on the Christian Idea of Man, University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, in October 2001, and originally published only in Spanish translation as ‘‘La sabiduria y la vida humana: Lo natural y lo sobrenatural,’’ in Idea Cristiana del Hombre: III Simposio Internacional Fe Cristiana y Cultura Contemporanea, ed. Juan Jesus Borobia, Miguel Lluch, José Ignatio Murillo, and Eduardo Terrasa (Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 2002), 303–338. Reprinted in English with permission of the publisher. Chapter 2: Wisdom as Foundational Ethical Theory in St. Thomas Aquinas Originally published in a slightly different form as ‘‘Wisdom as Foundational Ethical Theory in Thomas Aquinas,’’ in The Bases of Ethics, ed. William Sweet, Marquette Studies in Philosophy 23 (Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 2000), 39–78. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 3: St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Human Dignity Prepared for a colloquium on ‘‘Christian Philosophy and Human Dignity ,’’ held at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2002. Chapter 4: Truth and Happiness Presidential address to the American Catholic Philosophical Association, delivered March 27, 1993, in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally published in a ix x Previous Publication slightly different form in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 67 (1993): 1–21 and reprinted in Eleutheria (Ottawa) 7 (1995): 3–15. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 5: Antimodern, Ultramodern, Postmodern: A Plea for the Perennial Originally published in a slightly different form in Études maritainiennes– Maritain Studies 9 (1993): 7–28. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 6: Is Thomas Aquinas a Spiritual Hedonist? Originally published in a slightly different form as ‘‘Leslie Dewart and Spiritual Hedonism,’’ Laval théologique et philosophique 27 (1971): 25–39. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 7: Is Liberty the Criterion in Morals? Originally published in a slightly different form as ‘‘Punzo on Ethics,’’ New Scholasticism 58 (1984): 464–470. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 8: The Real Distinction between Intellect and Will Originally published in a slightly different form in Angelicum 57 (1980): 557–593. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 9: St. Thomas, James Keenan, and the Will Originally published in a slightly different form in Science et esprit 47 (1995): 153–176. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 10: St. Thomas and the Causes of Free Choice Originally published in a slightly different form in Acta philosophica 8 (1999): 87–96. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 11: St. Thomas and the First Cause of Moral Evil Originally published in a slightly different form in Moral and Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, ed. B. Carlos Bazán, Eduardo Andujar, and Leonard G. Sbrocchi, vol. 3 (Ottawa: Legas; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepds, 1995) 1223–1230. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Previous Publication xi Chapter 12: St. Thomas, Our Natural Lights, and the Moral Order Originally published in slightly different form in Études maritainiennes– Maritain Studies 2 (1986): 59–92 and reprinted in Angelicum 67 (1990): 285–307. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 13: Jacques Maritain and the Philosophy of Cooperation Composed for a colloquium held at the Dominican University College, Ottawa, in the autumn of 1984, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the college and originally published in a slightly different form in Alterité, Vivre ensemble différents, ed. Michael Gourgues and Gilles D. Mailhiot (Montreal: Bellarmin; Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1986), 109–117. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 14: Natural Law and the First Act of Freedom: Maritain Revisited Presented on October 28, 1995, at a meeting of the Canadian Maritain Association and originally published in a slightly different form in Études maritainiennes–Maritain Studies 12 (1996): 3–32. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 15: Jean Porter on Natural Law: Thomistic Notes Originally published in a slightly different form in Thomist 66 (2002): 275–309. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Chapter 16: St. Thomas, the Common Good, and the Love of Persons Prepared for a meeting of the Canadian Maritain Association held in Ottawa in October 1988, and originally published in a slightly different form as ‘‘Concerning the Person and the Common Good,’’ E...