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Boethius ... Aquinas by Anthony Kenny Thomas Aquinas Online Resources Texts: Saint Thomas Aquinas Used Books: Saint Thomas Aquinas Know of a Resource? Natural Law and Practical Reason - A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy Moral Philosophy and Theology Series by Martin Rhonheimer , Gerald Malsbary (Translator) Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy seeks to overcome misunderstandings in the traditional neo-thomistic view of natural law as well as unjustified claims of some recent currents in Roman Catholic moral theology in trying to found new, yet problematic understandings of moral autonomy. Working exclusively from a philosophical standpoint, the volume also challenges the same moral theologians on their adoption of consequentialism and proportionalism. The author systematically explores Aquinas's doctrine on natural law, seeking to put into evidence both its coherency and its connection with other features of Aquinas's teaching on human action. Rejecting a certain neo-Thomistic, rather naturalistic understanding of natural law, the book puts into evidence how natural law should not be called a law of nature as such, but a law of practical reason that is completely natural to humankind because reason is an essential part of human nature. Moreover, the work argues, that the position, which roots in a revisionist reading of Aquinas, leads to a deeply flawed conception of moral autonomy. | |
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