Aquinas, Aristotle, and the promise of the common good
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Mary M. Keys
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Cambridge ;New York
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: Cambridge University Press
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, 2006.
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xiii, 255 p.
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Why Aquinas? : reconsidering and reconceiving the common good - The promise and problem of the common good : contemporary experience and classical articulation - Why Aquinas? : centrality of the concept and focus on foundations - An overview of the argument, by parts and chapters - Contemporary responses to the problem of the common good : three Anglo-American theories - Liberal deontologism : contractarian common goods in Rawls's theory of justice - Communitarianism or civic republicanism : Sandel against common-sense "otherness" - A third way? : Galston on the common goods of liberal pluralism - Unearthing and appropriating Aristotle's foundations : from three Anglo-American theorists back to Thomas Aquinas - Aristotelianism and political-philosophic foundations, old and new - Aristotle's three political-philosophic foundations in Thomas Aquinas's thought - The first foundation and Aquinas's Commentary : human nature as "political and social" in politics - Reinforcing the foundations : Aquinas on the problem of political virtue and regime-centered political science - The second foundation and Aquinas's commentary : human beings and citizens in politics - Faults in the foundations : the uncommented politics and the problem of regime particularity - Politics pointing beyond the polis and the politeia : Aquinas's new foundations - Finishing the foundations and beginning to build : Aquinas on human action and excellence as social, civic, and religious community, common good, and goodness of will - Natural sociability and the extension of the human act - Cardinal virtues as social and civic virtues with a divine exemplar - Remodeling the moral edifice : Aquinas and Aristotelian magnanimity - Aristotle on magnanimity as virtue - Aquinas's commentary on the magnanimity of the Nicomachean ethics - The Summa theologiae on magnanimity and some "virtues of acknowledged dependence" - Remodeling the moral edifice : Aquinas and Aristotelian legal justice - Aristotle on legal justice - Aquinas's commentary on legal justice in the Nicomachean ethics - Legal justice and natural law in the Summa theologiae - Aquinas's two pedagogies : human law and the good of moral virtue - Aquinas's negative narrative, or how law can curb moral vice -- Beyond reform school : law's positive pedagogy of virtue according to Aquinas - Universality and particularity, law and liberty - Thomistic legal pedagogy and liberal-democratic polities - Theological virtue and Thomistic political theory - The problematic political promotion of theological virtue - Infused moral virtue and civic legal justice - Thomistic and Aristotelian moderation for the common good.
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Common good
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 - Political and social views
Aristotle, 384-322 B.C. - Political and social views