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28Mercy’s Impediments: Thomas Aquinas and Critical Race Theory in DialogueRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79 (1-2): 709-748. 2023.This paper raises an uncommon question: What can studying Thomas Aquinas and Critical Race Theory teach us about failures to promote mercy across the color-line? I answer this question in five stages. After locating Thomas’s teachings on mercy and its impediments within his masterwork, the Summa theologiae, I excavate Thomas’s account of mercy’s impediments. Next, I address the question “What is CRT?” Then I examine a foundational CRT text’s analysis of mercy’s impediments. Lastly, I offer a pro…Read more
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8Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective. By JeanPorter. Pp. xiii, 286, Eerdmans, 2016, £26.99/$40.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 61 (1): 182-182. 2020.
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Military leaders, fragmentation, and the virtue of integrityIn Peter Olsthoorn (ed.), Military Ethics and Leadership, Brill. 2017.
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1Christ's Propassion Of Fear: A Re‐EvaluationHeythrop Journal 63 (6): 1055-1070. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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8Christ's Propassion Of Fear: A Re‐EvaluationHeythrop Journal 63 (6): 1055-1070. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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5Thomas Aquinas's psychology of fearDissertation, Baylor University. 2018.Thomas Aquinas develops a strikingly expansive psychology of fear within his masterwork, the Summa theologiae. Whereas many classify fear under a single category, Aquinas specifies seven distinct categories of fear: the passion of fear ; the gift of fear ; the sin of fear ; the sin of fearlessness ; the vice of fear ; the vice of fearlessness ; and the propassion of fear. And whereas many classify courage as the only virtue indexed to fear, Aquinas argues that courage and perseverance perfect th…Read more
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21A Thomistic Reflection on Philippa Foot’s Corrective Theory of VirtueHeythrop Journal 63 (3): 367-377. 2022.In her influential essay ‘Virtues and Vices,’ Philippa Foot argues that virtues are essentially corrective, moderating between two vicious extremes. She also contends that Aquinas champions this view, too. In contrast, I argue that Foot misreads Aquinas; that Aquinas's actual theory of virtue is incompatible with the corrective theory Foot defends; and that those who endorse Aquinas's Augustinian theology should side with his perfective theory of virtue rather than Foot's corrective one.
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12Perfection in Death: The Christological Dimension of Courage in Aquinas. By Patrick M. Clark. Pp xxi, 317, The Catholic University of America Press, 2015, £60.50/$65.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (6): 1126-1127. 2021.
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1God, Value, and Nature. By FionaEllis. Pp ix, 220, Oxford University Press, 2014, £55.00/$99.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (3): 612-612. 2021.
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1Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by WilliamWerpehowski and Kathryn GetekSoltis. Pp ix, 209, Lexington Books, 2014, £51.95/$85.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 62 (3): 610-611. 2021.
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12The Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human. By Michael Banner. Pp xiii, 223, Oxford University Press, 2014, £20.00/$35.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 61 (2): 372-373. 2020.
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7The Politics of Virtue: Post‐Liberalism and the Human Future. By JohnMilbank and AdrianPabst. Pp x, 385, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, £24.95 /$39.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 61 (1): 179-180. 2020.
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4Seeking Perfection: A Dialogue about the Mind, the Soul, and What It Means to be Human. By Matt J.Rossano. Pp xvii, 195, Transaction Publishers, 2015, £24.50 /$24.95 (review)Heythrop Journal 60 (1): 129-129. 2019.
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8A Commentary on “Human Plurality as Object: An Arendtian Framework for Making Sense of Trump”Southwest Philosophy Review 34 (2): 9-12. 2018.
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20Military Ethics and the Situationist CritiqueJournal of Military Ethics 16 (3-4): 157-172. 2017.Many contributors to military ethics from diverse locations and philosophical perspectives maintain that virtues are central to martial theory and practice. Yet several contemporary philosophers and psychologists have recently challenged the empirical adequacy of this perspective. Their challenge is known as the situationist critique, a version of which asserts that: situational features rather than character traits such as virtues cause and explain human behavior, and ethical theories and devel…Read more
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4How We Fight: Ethics in War, edited by Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 14 (4): 487-490. 2017.
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3God, Value, and Nature. By Fiona Ellis. Pp ix, 220, Oxford University Press, 2014, £55.00/$99.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (4): 708-709. 2015.
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1The Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human. By Michael Banner. Pp xiii, 223, Oxford University Press, 2014, £20.00/$35.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (4): 711-711. 2015.
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22Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives. Edited by William Werpehowski and Kathryn Getek Soltis. Pp ix, 209, Lexington Books, 2014, £51.95/$85.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 56 (4): 719-720. 2015.
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2Involuntary Sins, Social Psychology, and the Application of RedemptionHeythrop Journal 56 (4): 593-603. 2015.
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4Developing Good Soldiers: The Problem of Fragmentation Within the ArmyJournal of Military Ethics 12 (4): 287-303. 2013.As social creatures, human beings possess a number of identities. A young woman, for example, is a daughter and a member of a particular ethnic group. She is also likely to be a citizen, a friend,...
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