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20The Good in Boethius’ De hebdomadibusHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 40 (3): 202-221. 2023.The De hebdomadibus (DH) of Boethius presents a problem with the idea that ordinary finite substances are good and then proposes a solution to the problem. Careful reconstruction of Boethius’ arguments reveals that his solution relies on an account of finite goodness that he does not make explicit. Moreover, accounts of finite goodness that commentators have supplied to the DH should be rejected. Instead, the account of finite goodness given in book III of the Consolatio successfully resolves th…Read more
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7The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics, edited by Tom Angier (review)Philosophia Christi 24 (2): 290-293. 2022.
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427The Good in Boethius’ De hebdomadibusHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 40 (3): 202-221. 2023.The De hebdomadibus (DH) of Boethius presents a problem with the idea that ordinary finite substances are good and then proposes a solution to the problem. Careful reconstruction of Boethius’ arguments reveals that his solution relies on an account of finite goodness that he does not make explicit. Moreover, accounts of finite goodness that commentators have supplied to the DH should be rejected. Instead, the account of finite goodness given in book III of the Consolatio successfully resolves th…Read more
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29Neil Sinclair (ed.), The Naturalistic Fallacy (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 19 (2): 225-228. 2022.
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27Joseph Minich, ed., Philosophy and the Christian: The Quest for Wisdom in the Light of Christ. Lincoln, NE: Davenant, 2018. 513 pages. $24.95. (review)Philosophia Christi 22 (2): 361-363. 2020.
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565Created Goodness and the Goodness of God: Divine Ideas and the Possibility of Creaturely ValueReligious Studies 58 (3): 534-546. 2022.Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, the goodness of something intrinsically valuable can only come from what has it. Many conclude from these two claims that no creatures have intrinsic value if traditional theism is true. I argue that the exemplarist theory of the divine ideas gives the theist a way out. According to exemplarism, God creates everything according to ideas that are about himself, and so everything resembles God. Since God is wholly go…Read more
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12On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method. By Niels Hemmingsen. Translated by E. J. Hutchinson. Pp. l, 202, Grand Rapids, Michigan, CLP Academic, 2018, $29.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (3): 609-610. 2021.
Areas of Specialization
Virtue Ethics |
Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics |
Intrinsic Value |
The Good |
History of Ethics |
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