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Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act: Second Edition (Introductions to Catholic Doctrine)
Steven Long
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Paperback. Series: Introduction to Catholic Doctrine Series. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 525.
Cutting through contemporary confusions with his characteristic rigor and aplomb, Steven A. Long offers the most penetrating study available of St. Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of the intention, choice, object, end, and species of the moral act. Many studies of human action and morality after Descartes and Kant have suffered from a tendency to split body and soul, so that the intention of the human spirit comes to justify whatever the body is made to do. The portrait of human action and morality that arises from such accounts is one of the soul as the pilot and the body as raw ... Read more
Cutting through contemporary confusions with his characteristic rigor and aplomb, Steven A. Long offers the most penetrating study available of St. Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of the intention, choice, object, end, and species of the moral act. Many studies of human action and morality after Descartes and Kant have suffered from a tendency to split body and soul, so that the intention of the human spirit comes to justify whatever the body is made to do. The portrait of human action and morality that arises from such accounts is one of the soul as the pilot and the body as raw ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Series
Introduction to Catholic Doctrine Series
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781932589733
SKU
V9781932589733
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About Steven Long
Steven Long teaches in the graduate theology program at Ave Maria University, where he is a full/ordinary professor of theology. He has published widely in peer review journals of philosophy and theology, and is the author of two other books in addition to The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act, Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine ... Read more
Reviews for Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act: Second Edition (Introductions to Catholic Doctrine)
“This is a book of unusual importance. It spells out in Thomistic terms what it is for someone to act and how it is that actions can be evaluated. It is failure at this elementary point that vitiates much contemporary moral discussion. Long supplies exactly what is needed to get things right and to understand why the notion of double ... Read more