Conscience Working within Prudentia—Instructed by Thomas Deman’s Reading of Aquinas

Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society

Hermeneutic and Teleology in Ethics across Denominations—Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth

This study arises from the context of current debates in the Catholic Church on the place of rule and law in moral reasoning. I suggest that ethics may be best served by approaches that place the human subject in a teleogical context and that recognise the need for interpretation of circumstances surrounding actions to be evaluated. This is in contrast to normative rule approaches. The insights...

The Concept of Vice and Its Relation to Sin from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi

This article tries to study comparatively the two concepts of vice and guilt and their relationship to each other in a descriptive-analytical method and based on the main works of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi. For Aquinas and Naraghi, vice is the opposite of virtue. From an anthropological point of view, the concept of "vice"  indicates a kind of inner and spiritual immaturity of man...

On Kenny on Aquinas on Being : A Critical Review of Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny

Gyula Klima, Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind (New York: Routledge, 1995) in Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998) 113–17. In this essay I will only deal with Kenny’s charges against Aquinas’s doctrine that directly concern Aquinas’s doctrine of being, namely, the charge of his failure to distinguish “specifi c existence” from “individual being” à la Frege, and the charges against Aquinas’s doctrin...