Wisdom, Law, and Virtue: Essays in Thomistic Ethics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823227969)

The focus of this book is morals-how human beings should live their lives. For Dewan (and Thomas Aquinas) moralsis the journey of the rational creature toward God.While philosophical considerations are central here, Christian revelation and its truth constitute an enveloping context. These essays treat the history of philosophy as a development that proceeds by deepening appreciation of basic questions rather than the constant replacement of one worldview by another. Thus, the author finds forebears in Plato and Aristotle, in Augustine and Boethius, and especially in Aquinas. Written over a period of more than thirty years, the essays collected here treat both perennial issues in philosophy and such current questions as suicide as a weapon of war, the death penalty, and lying. Above all, they present the wisdom, the sapiential vision, that makes morals possible.

Author: Lawrence Dewan
ISBN-10: 0823227960
ISBN-13: 9780823227969
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2007
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.36lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.33w x 1.77d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 17