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Happiness: A Study of Man's Natural Perfection in the Philosophy of Thomas AquinasDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1986.As a theologian, Thomas Aquinas identifies man's perfect beatitude with the immediate vision of God after this life through grace. He also recognizes that man can be happy in a certain measure in this life. He argues that such terrestrial felicity is proportioned to man's unaided, natural capacities. This thesis attempts to develop Thomas' reflections on man's natural, terrestrial happiness. The first chapter reviews the historical background of Thomas' thought on this matter. Aristotle, Plotinu…Read more
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29Al-Kindi on Creation: Aristotle's Challenge to IslamJournal of the History of Ideas 50 (3): 355. 1989.
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37Person and Being: The Aquinas Lecture, 1993. By W. Norris Clarke (review)Modern Schoolman 71 (2): 154-156. 1994.
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1Happiness: 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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53Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas on the Good and the Human GoodModern Schoolman 72 (4): 311-322. 1995.
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38Parts and WholesProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 66 (n/a): 203-213. 1992.
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12Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas on the Good and the Human GoodModern Schoolman 72 (4): 311-322. 1995.
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38Goodness 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
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22Anselm 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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