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    What Does the Law Have to Do with Virtue?
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 23 (3): 421-430. 2023.
    In light of truths expressed by Thomas Aquinas and in lawyers’ oaths, lawyers sworn to uphold the civil law must work toward the goal of teaching and gradually encouraging citizens to have the inner virtues that would make civil law itself irrelevant. This follows from claims central to the civic and the Catholic intellectual traditions: the civil law is a teacher, its effect ought to be the promotion of virtue, and virtuous living is constitutive of the common good. Natural law undergirds and g…Read more
  •  4
    Jerome of Prague
    In Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell. 2005.
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    Peter the Venerable
    In Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell. 2005.
  •  4
    The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia (edited book)
    with Robert A. Delfino and William Irwin
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
    Over the past 50 years, Jorge J.E. Gracia has been a seminal figure in Latin American philosophy, philosophy of race and ethnicity, metaphysics and ontology, medieval philosophy, and the theory of interpretation. This book commemorates Gracia’s legacy with a critical investigation of his deep and wide-ranging impact.
  •  9
    Review of Teleology and the Norms of Nature, by William J. Fitzpatrick (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 5 (1): 230-232. 2004.
  • Newman and the Virtue of Philosophy
    Expositions 9 41-55. 2015.
  • Neo-Platonism and Its Legacy
    with Sarah Wear
    Franciscan University Press. 2011.
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    Before Virtue: Assessing Contemporary Virtue Ethics
    The Catholic University of America Press. 2015.
    In Before Virtue, Jonathan Sanford develops strategies for describing contemporary virtue ethics accurately. He then assesses contemporary virtue approaches by the Anscombean dual standard which inspired them.
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    Morality and the Human Goods (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 57 (2): 406-407. 2003.
    This book is intended for “students and readers not formally trained in philosophy who feel the need for a reliable conceptual structure for their own thinking in the midst of the confusing array of moral views expressed today”. It is systematic in structure and almost no mention is made of the historical sources for natural law ethics until the appendix, where Gómez-Lobo credits Grisez and especially Finnis for shaping much of the book’s content. Gómez-Lobo proceeds under the assumption that “c…Read more
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    Scheler versus Scheler
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1): 145-161. 2005.
    Scheler’s theory of the person is at the center of his philosophy and one of the most celebrated of his achievements. It is somewhat surprising, then, that a straightforward and sufficient account of the person is missing from his works, an omission felt most keenly in that work which is in large measure dedicated to forging a new personalism: The Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values. In his explicit accounts of what a person is, Scheler stresses its spirituality and claims that i…Read more
  •  6
    Scheler on Feeling and Values
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 76 165-181. 2002.
    Max Scheler argues that there is much to learn about reality through faculties that lie beyond the boundary of reason. In his Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, Scheler explores values (Werte), awareness of which depends primarily on affective receptivity rather than rational perceptionof the world. This essay explores the possibility of affective insight in light of Scheler’s analysis of values. Scheler’s notion of values as moral facts is first examined, next consideration is…Read more
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    Response to Christopher Tollefsen’s “Morality and God”
    Quaestiones Disputatae 5 (1): 61-64. 2014.
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    Rethinking Virtue Ethics. By Michael Winter (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (1): 216-218. 2013.
  •  3
    Confronting Aristotle’s Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1): 107-109. 2009.
  • Reading Anselm’s Proslogion (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (1): 113-115. 2011.
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    Review of “Teleology and the Norms of Nature” (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 5 (1): 35. 2004.
  •  93
    Scheler on Feeling and Values
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 76 165-181. 2002.
    Max Scheler argues that there is much to learn about reality through faculties that lie beyond the boundary of reason. In his Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values, Scheler explores values (Werte), awareness of which depends primarily on affective receptivity rather than rational perceptionof the world. This essay explores the possibility of affective insight in light of Scheler’s analysis of values. Scheler’s notion of values as moral facts is first examined, next consideration is…Read more
  •  11
    Experiments in Ethics
    Quaestiones Disputatae 1 (1): 264-267. 2010.
  •  19
    Review of Raskolnikov’s Rebirth, by Ilham Dilham (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 4 (1): 80-87. 2003.
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    Review of Aristotle’s Ethics, by David Bostock (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 3 (1): 84-88. 2002.
    Bostock’s Aristotle’s Ethics is a commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Although there are other ethical writings within the Aristotelian corpus, referring to the Nicomachean Ethics as Aristotle’s Ethics seems warranted: the Nicomachean Ethics has long been regarded as Aristotle’s most mature ethical work, and it is certainly his most thorough one. Bostock’s commentary is of interest as an interpretation and as a critical appraisal of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. In what follows I dis…Read more
  •  47
    Aristotle on Evil as Privation
    International Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2): 195-209. 2017.
    The notion that evil is not simply a privation but a privation of a due good has roots in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and implications for other areas of his thought. In making this case, I begin with a description of the standard view of Aristotle’s place in the development of the privation theory of evil and contend that the standard view does not do justice to Aristotle’s theory of evil. I then provide an interpretation of a portion of Metaphysics Theta that utilizes recent scholarship on this bo…Read more
  •  39
    Reading Anselm’s Proslogion (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (1): 113-115. 2011.
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    Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays (edited book)
    with Michael Gorman
    Catholic University of America Press. 2004.
    The essays in this volume, written by a mix of well-established and younger philosophers, bridge divides between historical and systematic approaches in philosophy as well divides between analytical, continental, and American traditions.
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    Are You Man Enough? Aristotle and Courage
    International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 431-445. 2010.
    There are four features to Aristotle’s account of courage that appear peculiar when compared to our own intuitions about this virtue: (1) his account of courage seems not, on its surface, to fit a eudaimonist model, (2) courage is restricted to a surprisingly small number of actions, (3) this restriction, among other things, excludes women and non-combatant men from ever exercising this virtue, and (4) courage is counted as virtuous because of its nobility and beauty. In this paper I explore Ari…Read more
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    Confronting Aristotle’s Ethics: Ancient and Modern Morality
    International Philosophical Quarterly 49 (1): 107-109. 2009.
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    Deadly Vices (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 61 (1): 162-164. 2007.