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174Ultimate ends in practical reasoning: Aquinas's aristotelian moral psychology and Anscombe's fallacyPhilosophical Review 100 (1): 31-66. 1991.
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16The divine natureIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 71--90. 2001.
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Gilbert of Poitiers' Metaphysics of GoodnessRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 57-77. 1999.
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4Book Review: Wyclif in His Times. Anthony Kenny. (review)Philosophical Books 28 (3): 152-55. 1987.
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40On a Complex Theory of a Simple God: An Investigation in Aquinas' Philosophical Theology (review)Philosophical Review 101 (4): 956. 1992.
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203How can one search for God?: The paradox of inquiry in Augustine's confessionsMetaphilosophy 39 (1). 2008.The Confessions recounts Augustine 's successful search for God. But Augustine worries that one cannot search for God if one does not already know God. That version of the paradox of inquiry dominates and structures Confessions 1–10. I draw connections between the dramatic opening lines of book 1 and the climactic discussion in book 10.26–38 and argue that the latter discussion contains Augustine 's resolution of the paradox of inquiry as it applies to the special case of searching for God. I cl…Read more
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10Aquinas's Libertarian Account of Free ChoiceRevue International de Philosophie 52 (204): 309-28. 1998.
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41Practical Reasoning and Reasons-Explanations: Aquinas's Account of Reasons Role in ActionIn Scott MacDonald & Eleonore Stump (eds.), Aquinas's Moral Theory, Cornell University Press. 1999.
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82Foundations in Aquinas's ethicsSocial Philosophy and Policy 25 (1): 350-367. 2008.Aquinas argues that practical reasoning requires foundations: first practical principles (ultimate ends) grasped by us per se from which deliberation proceeds. Contrary to the thesis of an important paper of Terence Irwin's, I deny that Aquinas advances two inconsistent conceptions of the scope of deliberation and, correspondingly, two inconsistent accounts of the content of the first practical principles presupposed by deliberation. On my account, Aquinas consistently takes first practical prin…Read more
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14Book Review: Philosophies of Existence: Ancient and Medieval. Parviz Morewedge. (review)Ancient Philosophy 7 259-61. 1987.
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44Aquina's Ultimate Ends: A Reply to GrisezAmerican Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (1): 37-49. 2001.A large part of the ambitious project that Grisez sketches in his paper can reasonably be thought of as developing and extending in interesting ways ideas of Thomas Aquinas. But in Part IV of the paper Grisez dramatically parts company with Aquinas on what might seem a fundamental issue. Aquinas famously holds that human beings find their ultimate fulfillment in beatific vision of God. Grisez tells us that, as he understands that claim, it is false.
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149The Esse/Essentia Argument in Aquinas's De ente et essentiaJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 157-72. 1984.The purpose of the article is to offer a detailed exegetical analysis of the argument in chapter four of "de ente et essentia" in which aquinas argues for a distinction between "esse" and essence and to develop an interpretation of it on the basis of the analysis. I argue that the reconstructed argument shows that aquinas argues for a real distinction and that he establishes it earlier in the argument than some commentators have thought. I criticize a rival interpretation of the argument defende…Read more
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1Augustine, Confessions (ca. 400)In Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg & Bernard N. Schumacher (eds.), The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 96. 2003.
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19In Memoriam: Norman Kretzmann, 1928-1998Journal of Nietzsche Studies 7 (2): 111-114. 1998.Mos enim amicorum est ut cum amicus ad suam exaltationem vadit, de eius recessu minus desolentur
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50Christian FaithIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), Reasoned faith: essays in philosophical theology in honor of Norman Kretzmann, Cornell University Press. 1993.
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34Editor’s IntroductionJournal of Nietzsche Studies 9 (2): 3-5. 2000.This issue of MedievalPhilosophyandTheology is atypical in that it contains a single work by a single philosopher and scholar. Norman Kretzmann, the author of the work here presented, was one of the founders of this journal and served as the chair of its editorial board from the journal’s inception until his untimely death in 1998. His intimate association with MedievalPhilosophyandTheology and his dedication to its mission makes the journal an entirely appropriate vehicle for the publication of…Read more
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26Book Review: Luis de Molina: On Divine Foreknowledge (Part IV of the Concordia). Alfred J. Freddoso (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (1): 177-79. 1989.
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29Primal SinIn Gareth B. Matthews (ed.), The Augustinian Tradition, University of California Press. 1998.
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51Aquinas's moral theory: essays in honor of Norman KretzmannCornell University Press. 1998.This volume explores the ethical dimensions of a wide selection of philosophical and theological topics in Aquinas's texts.
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7Book Review: Reason and Religion: Essays in Philosophical Theology. Anthony Kenny. (review)Philosophical Review 99 (1): 138-42. 1990.
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114Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1991.In exploring this tradition of philosophical reflection on the nature of goodness, the twelve essays in this book (all but two published here for the first time) present some of the best recent historical scholarship in...
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41The Metaphysics of Goodness and the Doctrine of the TranscendentalsIn Being and Goodness, Cornell University Press. 1991.
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