The Specification of Human Actions in St Thomas Aquinas. By Joseph Pilsner
‘What am I doing?’ the morally sensitive person asks. Aquinas sought to help by classifying voluntary actions. The question this book seeks to address is whether this classification remains valid in the modern world and, with clarity and a stylish wit, the author explains Aquinas's categories a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 341 |
| Review of: | The specification of human actions in St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006) (Evans, Gillian)
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| Summary: | ‘What am I doing?’ the morally sensitive person asks. Aquinas sought to help by classifying voluntary actions. The question this book seeks to address is whether this classification remains valid in the modern world and, with clarity and a stylish wit, the author explains Aquinas's categories and assumptions partly with reference to fictional examples taken from modern life. He stresses (p. 17) the importance of considering not only ‘human actions in their more basic stages’ but the way these elementary categories fit ‘within the broader context of the moral life’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll151 |