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14Beyond the self: virtue ethics and the problem of culture (edited book)Baylor University Press. 2019.W. David Solomon sits at the very center of the revival of virtue ethics. Solomon's work extended what began with the publication of G. E. M. Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958) by solidifying virtue ethics as a viable approach within contemporary moral philosophy. Beyond the Self: Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Culture comprises twelve chapters: eleven that employ Solomon's work and legacy, followed by a twelfth concluding chapter by Solomon himself. Each chapter deepens and develops …Read more
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5The Main Challenges in Pediatric Ethics from Around the GlobeIn Nico Nortjé & Johan C. Bester (eds.), Pediatric Ethics: Theory and Practice, Springer Verlag. pp. 3-21. 2021.This chapter highlighted some salient trends in pediatric ethicsEthics, pediatric from different parts of the globe. It is interesting to note that although diverse, there are many similarities between ethical challenges in pediatrics in different parts of the world.
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Tocqueville on religionIn Daniel Gordon (ed.), The Anthem companion to Alexis de Tocqueville, Anthem Press. 2019.
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9End of Life: Resuscitation, Fluids and Feeding, and ‘Palliative Sedation’In Nico Nortjé & Johan C. Bester (eds.), Pediatric Ethics: Theory and Practice, Springer Verlag. pp. 239-252. 2021.In this chapter, we consider how a commitment to acting in a child’s interestsChild's interests can be brought to bear on three specific ethical quandaries that face those caring for children at the end of lifeEnd-of-life, and how such a commitment might seem to cohere or be in tension with other principles such as autonomyAutonomy and justiceJustice. We examine the status of ‘do not resuscitateDo Not Resuscitate ’ orders in children and argue that they cannot exist in children in the same form …Read more
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8Joseph Clair, On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of LearningAugustinian Studies 50 (2): 225-229. 2019.
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1One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics by Alexander Pruss (review)Nova et Vetera 15 (2). 2017.
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1Thomas Aquinas and Philosophy of Punishment by Peter Karl Kortiansky (review)Nova et Vetera 13 (1). 2015.
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Intractable Disputes about the Natural Law: Alasdair MacIntyre and Critics edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham (review)Nova et Vetera 11 (1). 2013.
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18Knowing the Natural Law: From Precepts and Inclinations to Deriving Oughts (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (4): 757-761. 2015.
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54Justice in the Public SquareInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (1): 149-162. 2016.This paper develops some foundations for an Aristotelian ethics of the built environment by combining the formal elements of Aristotelian justice with the design theory of Christopher Alexander. The resulting ordered set of human actions and their corresponding built environments require social deliberation about the integration of activities. This deliberation is required at all levels of human action, is characterized by local and step-wise decision making, and in important ways makes it possi…Read more
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1Consilium and the Foundations of EthicsThe Thomist 79 (1): 43-74. 2015.This essay develops the foundations of a Thomistic ethics of inquiry by proposing an account of 'consilium' (or practical deliberation) that is essentially social. This account in turn has three important implications. First, the moral knowledge available to us prior to the workings of 'consilium' is too vague to ground anything approaching substantive moral conclusions (the content of 'synderesis' is significantly limited). Second, if the apprehension of all but the very highest moral truths de…Read more
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Individuality and Personality in Maritain and Classical Hindu PhilosophyIn Peter Paul Koritansky (ed.), Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order: Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politics, The American Maritain Association. pp. 63-73. 2013.Jacques Maritain claims in the opening pages of Scholasticism and Politics that his distinction between individuality and personality is a universal one, and is found prominently, for example, in classical Hindu philosophy. After explaining Maritain's use of these terms, and their importance in Scholasticism and Politics, I consider the principle Upanishads and The Bhagavad Gita in order to see how true Maritain's claim might be, and what importance this might have for politics.
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88Authority, the Family, and Health Care Decision MakingChristian Bioethics 17 (3): 227-242. 2011.The family, like so many other modern institutions, often looks more like an arena of competing wills than an ordered life in common. If we hope, therefore, to protect the special role that parents should have in relation to their children, and that the family in general should have in relation to its members, we will need a much more developed account of the goods that are at stake and why we think they are important enough to require authority, even when members of the family oppose the decisi…Read more
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11Aquinas and Aristotelian HylomorphismIn Matthew Levering & Gilles Emery (eds.), Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology, Oxford University Press. pp. 48-69. 2015.This essay first develops St. Thomas Aquinas’s appropriation of Aristotle's hylomorphic account of human nature by considering Aquinas’s commentary on the De anima and Aquinas's own mature account of human nature in the Summa Theologiae. It is then made clear how a series of problems arises for Aquinas’s position based on whether we emphasize body/soul unity or the special status of the intellectual soul, taking as the central difficulty the status of the disembodied soul between death and resu…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |