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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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