The Light That Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law - Couverture rigide

Brock, Stephen L

 
9781532647307: The Light That Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law
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ISBN 10 : 1532647301 ISBN 13 : 9781532647307
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

If there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas's natural law teaching, and from many different perspectives. The aim of this book is to help see it from his own perspective. That is why the focus is metaphysical. Aquinas's whole moral doctrine is laden with metaphysics, and his natural law teaching especially so, because it is all about first principles. The book centers on how Aquinas thinks the first principles of practical reason, which for him are what make up natural law, function as laws. It is a controversial question, and the book engages a variety of readers of Aquinas, including Francisco Suarez, Jacques Maritain, prominent analytical philosophers, Straussians, and the initiators of the New Natural Law theory. Among the issues addressed are the relation between natural law and natural inclination, how far natural law depends on knowledge of human nature, what its obligatory force consists in, and, above all, how it is related to what for Aquinas is the first principle of all being, the divine will.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen L. Brock is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He is the author of Action and Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action (1998) and of numerous scholarly articles on Thomas's thought.

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Éditeur
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532647301
ISBN 13 
9781532647307
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
294
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ISBN 10 :  1532647298 ISBN 13 :  9781532647291
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2020
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