Ultimate Normative Foundations

The Case for Aquinas's Personalist Natural Law

R. Mary Hayden Lemmons (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

490 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5654-5 (ISBN)

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This book establishes that normativity has necessary characteristics explicable only through the natural law formulation developed by Aquinas and based on loving God and neighbor, albeit understood in terms other than Christian charity and updated according to the personalism of John Paul II. The resulting personalist natural law can counter objections rising from classical and contemporary metaethics, moral diversity, undeserved suffering, antithetical interpretations of Aquinas’s natural law, and alternative ethical theories, e.g., atheistic eudaimonism. Also established are the virtues of love; the nature of indefeasibility, moral objectivity, human flourishing, and Thomistic self-evidence; the relationship between the Bonum Precept (good is to be done and pursued; evil is to be avoided) and the love precepts (God is to be loved above all; neighbors are to be loved as oneself) as well as specific moral and legal obligations. These specifications update the nature of the common good, Just War Theory, the warrant for capital punishment, environmental obligations, and the basis for universal, unalienable rights, including religious liberty. The Appendix sketches the history of natural law from its origins in ancient Greek philosophy and Roman law, through developments during the Enlightenment and the American revolution, to contemporary incarnations. Overall, the book’s scope and detailed arguments make it a comprehensive resource for those interested in normative foundations, justifying morality’s objectivity and universality, global jurisprudence, and recasting Thomistic natural law in terms of personalist love.

Rose Mary Hayden Lemmons is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part One. Problematic Sources of Normativity
Chapter 4 Chapter One. Rational Intuitionism: Ross or Maritain
Chapter 5 Chapter Two. Human or Divine Will: Kantianism or Divine Prescriptivism
Chapter 6 Chapter Three. Natural Inclinations as a Voluntarist Naturalism
Chapter 7 Chapter Four. Indispensable Social Goods
Chapter 8 Chapter Five. Autonomous Virtues
Chapter 9 Chapter Six. Eudaimonic Pluralism (the GBF Paradigm)
Part 10 Part Two. Thomistic Normativity
Chapter 11 Chapter Seven. Aquinas on Truth, Goodness, and Eudaimonia
Chapter 12 Chapter Eight. Privileging the Love Precepts
Part 13 Part Three. Thomistic Puzzles
Chapter 14 Chapter Nine. Basic Questions and Responses
Chapter 15 Chapter Ten. Whether Personalist Natural Law is a Thomistic Abomination?
Part 16 Part Four. Classical and Contemporary Metaethical Challenges
Chapter 17 Chapter Eleven. Challenges to Natural Law's Normativity, Objectivity, and Specificity
Chapter 18 Chapter Twelve. The Challenges of Agnostic and Athestic Moral Eudaimonism
Chapter 19 Chapter Thirteen. The Challenges of Voluntarist Liberty, and the Nietzschean Will to Power
Part 20 Part Five. Love Precepts: Their Normativity and Specifications
Chapter 21 Chapter Fourteen. Love’s Normativity, and Love’s Virtues
Chapter 22 Chapter Fifteen. Neighborly Love: Personalist and Juridical Obligations
Chapter 23 Chapter Sixteen. Loving God: Proportional Obligations
Chapter 24 Chapter Seventeen. Updating the Parameters of War and Punishment With Love
Part 25 Part Six. Global Challenges and Thomistic Responses
Chapter 26 Chapter Eighteen. The Reality of Moral Diversity
Chapter 27 Chapter Nineteen. The Globe, Feminism, and Aquinas
Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty. Personalist Natural Law: Normative Advantages
Chapter 29 Conclusion
Chapter 30 Appendix. A Historical Sketch of Natural Law

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 231 mm
Gewicht	776 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-4985-5654-X / 149855654X
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-5654-5 / 9781498556545
Zustand	Neuware