Goffstown, New Hampshire, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
17th/18th Century Philosophy
  •  13
    Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Ethics of Virtue
    Modern Schoolman 66 (4): 285-300. 1989.
  •  38
    Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 48 (1): 141-142. 1994.
    This book begins and ends with a defense of an interesting and provocative thesis. Right actions, choices, intentions, and the virtues which dispose one to right actions are neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for being a good person. As Keenan defines it "goodness is the measure of persons, their habits of conduct, and their acts as proceeding from one who strives openly out of love to realize right living" ; and "rightness is the measure of acts and the proximate sources of acts, that …Read more
  •  22
    Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the Word. By Eileen Sweeney (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (3): 560-564. 2013.
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    Happiness: The Natural End of Man?
    The Thomist 53 (2): 215-234. 1989.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:HAPPINESS: THE NATURAL END OF MAN? KEVIN M. STALEY St. Anslem Oollege Manchester, New Hampshire I AONG THE QUESTIONS the philosopher considers, none perhaps ris more important than that of ' the good life.' This question looks for the distinguishing marks of a. life which is fully human and which constitutes the actualization of one's uniquely human potential. For the ancient philosophers, such a life was considered the highest good …Read more
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    Anselm on Freedom
    International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (1): 136-139. 2010.
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    Metaphysics and the Good Life
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1): 1-28. 1991.
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    Being and the Between (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4): 473-475. 1997.
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    Parts and Wholes
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 66 (n/a): 203-213. 1992.