Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act: Second Edition

Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act: Second Edition (Introductions to Catholic Doctrine)

Cutting through contemporary confusions with his characteristic rigor and aplomb, Steven A. Long offers the most penetrating study available of St. Thomas Aquinas's doctrine of the intention, choice, object, end, and species of the moral act. Many studies of human action and morality after Descartes and Kant have suffered from a tendency to split body and soul, so that the intention of the human spirit comes to justify whatever the body is made to do. The portrait of human action and morality that arises from such accounts is one of the soul as the pilot and the body as raw material in need of humanization. In this masterful study, Steven Long reconnects the teleology of the soul with the teleology of the body, so that human goal-oriented action rediscovers its lost moral unity, given it by the Creator who has created the human person as a body-soul unity.
Country USA
Brand Catholic University of America Press
Manufacturer The Catholic University of America Press
Binding Paperback
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EANs 9781932589733
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Catholic University of America Press
Manufacturer	The Catholic University of America Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781932589733
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act: Second Edition (Introductions to Catholic Doctrine)