Psychic development

Porter, Jean

Random House]

How do we decide whether an action is right or wrong? Recently, moral philosophers have moved away from the claim that we can find one definite solution to every moral problem by means of clearly established moral rules. While sympathetic to their critiques of modern moral theories, Porter questions whether these critiques go far enough in offering a positive alternative to a modern view of the moral act. Instead, she returns to Aquinas, and seeks to reclaim his understanding of the moral act as a product of interdependent moral virtues.

Moral Action and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 5)

Christian Books & Bibles

Catholicism

Cambridge University Press

Attempts to reconstruct the moral theories of Saint Thomas Aquinas in terms of contemporary Christian ethics, and considers human goodness, virtue, justice, and prudence

The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

John Knox Pr

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary Christian ethics.

Religion & Spirituality

Westminster/John Knox Press

This noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Though this history might seem irrelevant to twenty-first-century life, Jean Porter shows that the scholastic approach to the natural law still has much to contribute to the contemporary discussion of Christian ethics. Aquinas and his interlocutors provide a way of thinking about the natural law that is distinctively theological while at the same time remaining open to other intellectual perspectives, including those of science. In the course of her work, Porter examines the scholastics' assumptions and beliefs about nature, Aquinas's account of happiness, and the overarching claim that reason can generate moral norms. Ultimately, Porter argues that a Thomistic theory of the natural law is well suited to provide a starting point for developing a more nuanced account of the relationship between specific beliefs and practices. While Aquinas's approach to the natural law may not provide a system of ethical norms that is both universally compelling and detailed enough to be practical, it does offer something that is arguably more valuable' namely, a way of reflecting theologically on the phenomenon of human morality.

Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

Jean Porter is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her other books include Natural and Divine Law and Nature as Reason.

Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))

History

World

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

“Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it — and as most people think of it today. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas’s account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas’s views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated.

Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective

A Grandfather's Gift

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Arts & Photography

Architecture

Jean Porter

If you love historical homes, powerful political figures, steamships, trains, brilliant business people, renovations, interior design, gardens in pink and secrets, then welcome to Glencairn Hall. Built in 1832, perched on the edge of the Niagara River. The road this mansion is situated on, according to Winston Churchill, "is the prettiest drive in the world."

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Psychic development

Moral Action and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 5)

Moral Action and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics, Series Number 5)

The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics

The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics

Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law

Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))

Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective

A Grandfather's Gift

A Grandfather's Gift