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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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4Augustine's Cognitive Voluntarism in De trinitate 11In Emmanuel Bermon Gerard O'Daly (ed.), Le De Trinitate de saint Augustin : exégèse, logique et noétique, . forthcoming.
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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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24Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas.Fran O'Rourke (review)Speculum 69 (3): 866-868. 1994.
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Later Medieval Philosophy (1150-1350): An Introduction. John Marenbon. (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71 84-89. 1989.
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743Synchronic Contingency, Instants of Nature, and Libertarian Freedom: Comments on 'The Background to Scotus's Theory of Will'Modern Schookman 72 (2-3): 169-74. 1995.
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140Goodness as transcendental: The early thirteenth-century recovery of an aristotelian ideaTopoi 11 (2): 173-186. 1992.In this paper I investigate the philosophical developments at the heart of what appears to be the earliest systematic formulation of the doctrine of the transcendentals by comparing the first questions of Philip the Chancellor''sSumma de bono (the so-called first treatise on the transcendentals — ca. 1230) with its immediate ancestor, a small group of questions from William of Auxerre''sSumma aurea (ca. 1220). I argue that Philip''s innovative position on the relation between being and goodness,…Read more
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40Boethius’s Claim that all Substances are GoodArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 70 (3): 245-79. 1988.
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