Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy

by Martin Rhonheimer

Overview

Rhonheimer applies moral theology to practical questions, such as, what does it mean to violate the natural law, or to be “unnatural”?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823219797
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology , #1
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	620
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin Rhonheimer, a Roman Catholic priest, is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty of the Pontifical Athenaeum of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the English Edition	vii
	Abbreviations Used for the Citation of Thomas's Works	xii
	Introduction	xiii
Part I	The Law of the Practical Reason: Methodology and Conceptual Foundations
1	Natural Law and the Practical Reason as the Subject of Philosophical Ethics	3
2	The Concept of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas: A Theory of the Practical Reason	58
Part II	Personal Autonomy, Natural Law, and Moral Objectivity: In-Depth Studies
	Preliminary Note	179
3	The Model of "Autonomous Morality"	181
4	The Concept of Autonomy	195
5	Participated Autonomy: Toward a Metaphysics and Anthropology of the Natural Law	234
6	Natural Dynamics of the Reason: The Epistemological Structure of the Natural Law	257
7	The Normative Function of the Reason and Its Fulfillment in Moral Virtue	307
8	"Teleological Ethics" (I): Utilitarianism and the Deontology/Teleology Distinction	351
9	"Teleological Ethics" (II): Physicalism and Hidden Deontology	382
10	The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Practical Reason	410
11	The Objectivity of Human Action: Detailed Treatment of Some Classic Problems	452
12	The Objectivity of Human Action: The Object of Action and the Natural Law	491
13	Some Philosophical Conclusions--and an Orientation for Moral Theology	534
	Author's Postscript to the English Edition	555
	Bibliography	593
	Bibliographical Supplement	611
	Index	617