Mary M. Keys

Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good, first published in 2006, claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas's normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining the relationship between personal and common goods, and the relation of virtue and law to both, Mary M. Keys shows why Aquinas should be read in addition to Aristotle on these perennial questions. She focuses on Aquinas's Commentaries as mediating statements between Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics and Aquinas's own Summa Theologiae, showing how this serves as the missing link for grasping Aquinas's understanding of Aristotle's thought. Keys argues provocatively that Aquinas's Christian faith opens up new panoramas and possibilities for philosophical inquiry and insights into ethics and politics. Her book shows how religious faith can assist sound philosophical inquiry into the foundation and proper purposes of society and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511254918
• Artikelnr.: 38186215

Autorenporträt

Mary M. Keys is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She has received fellowships from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Martin Marty Center for Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, and the George Strake Foundation, among others. Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Political Science and History of Political Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Virtue, Law and the Problem of the Common Good: 1. Why Aquinas?
Reconsidering and receiving the common good; 2. Contemporary responses to
the problem of the common good: three Anglo-American theories; Part II.
Aquinas's Social and Civic Foundations: 3. Unearthing and appropriating
Aristotle's foundations: from three Anglo-American theorists back to Thomas
Aquinas; 4. Reinforcing the foundations: Aquinas on the problem of
political virtue and regime-centered political science; 5. Finishing the
foundations and beginning to build: Aquinas on human action and excellence
as social, civic, and religious; Part III. Moral Virtues at the Nexus of
Personal and Common Goods: 6. Remodeling the moral edifice (I): Aquinas and
Aristotelian magnanimity; 7. Remodeling the moral edifice (II): Aquinas and
Aristotelian legal justice; Part IV. Politics, Human Law, and
Transpolitical Virtue: 8. Aquinas's two pedagogies: human law and the good
of moral virtue; 9. Theological virtue and Thomisitic political theory.