Moral Action and Christian Ethics
Moral Action and Christian Ethics
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How do we decide whether an action is right or wrong? Recently, moral philosophers have moved away from the claim that we can find one definite solution to every moral problem by means of clearly established moral rules. While sympathetic to their critiques of modern moral theories, Porter questions whether these critiques go far enough in offering a positive alternative to a modern view of the moral act. Instead, she returns to Aquinas, and seeks to reclaim his understanding of the moral act as a product of interdependent moral virtues.
- Provides an account of moral reasoning, developed out of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, which offers an alternative to modern moral theories
- Opens up approaches to moral judgement to Christians and non-Christians
- Of interest to students of Aquinas as well as to moral philosophers and moral theologians
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"...make[s] a significant contribution to the contemporary philosophical debate going on within moral theology, and it suggests once again the perennial value of Aquinas." Theological Studies
Product details
April 1999Paperback
9780521657105
254 pages
216 × 138 × 15 mm
0.3kg
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Table of Contents
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The moral act, moral theory, and the logical limits of rules
- 2. The meaning of morality
- 3. Moral judgement in context
- 4. Moral acts and acts of virtue
- 5. The virtues reformulated
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
