Freedom, Virtue, and the Common Good
Edited by Curtis L. Hancock and Anthony O. Simon
Book Overview
Inspired by the recovery of natural law and virtue ethics in recent ethical discourse, certain members of the American Maritain Association have written essays to stimulate this recovery further. Their efforts are assembled in this volume, Freedom, Virtue, and the Common Good. Writing under the influence of Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon, they herein examine the requirements of a satisfactory natural law and virtue ethics, broadly understood as a moral philosophy giving primacy to character-formation and to the development of individual and social habits necessary to perfect human life. The ethics herein envisioned is one that must first be grounded in a sound philosophy of the human person.
This text is no longer in publication. Therefore, we are making its contents available online.
Contents
Don T. Asselin, “A Weakness in the ‘Standard Argument’ for Natural Immortality”
Brendan Sweetman, “Non-Conceptual Knowledge in Jacques Maritain and Gabriel Marcel”
Donald De Marco, “The Fundamental Role of Duty in Jacques Maritain's Moral Philosophy”
John Killoran, “A Moral Realist Perspective on Yves R. Simon's Interpretation of Habitus”
Mark McGovern, “Synderesis: A Key to Understanding Natural Law in Aquinas”
W. L. LaCroix, “A Fresh Look at the Principle of the Double Effect”
Joseph L. Pappin III, “Rahner and Maritain on Existential Ethics”
Alice Ramos, “Tradition as ‘Bearer of Reason’ in Alasdair MacIntyre's Moral Enquiry”
William Bush, “Maritain and the Pursuit of Happiness in Light of Claudel, Péguy, and Bernanos”
Deal W. Hudson, “Are the Poor Blessed? On Happiness and Beatitude”
Joseph Koterski, S.J, “A Biblical View of Natural Law in the Book of Wisdom”
Joseph J. Califano, “The Self, Intersubjectivity, and the Common Good”