Table Of ContentAQUINAS'S
MORAL
THEORY
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Essays in Honor of
Norman Kretzmann
EDITED BY
Scott MacDonald
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Eleonore Stump
Aquinas's Moral Theory
NORMAN KRETZMANN
AQUINAS'S
MORAL THEORY
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Essays in Honor of
Norman Kretzmann
EDITED BY
SCOTT MACDONALD
AND ELEONORE STUMP
Cornell University Press
Ithaca and London
Photograph of Norman Kretzmann by Jean Anne Leuchtenburg,
National Humanities Center
"Thomas Aquinas on the Good: The Relation between Metaphysics and Ethics,"
by Jan A. Aertsen, originally appeared in his book Medieval Philosophy and the
Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1996).
Reprinted by permission.
Portions of "Aquinas on Alistotelian Happiness," by Anthony Kenny, appeared in
his essay "History of Philosophy: Historical and Rational Reconstruction," Philosophica
Fennica 61 (1996): 67-81. Reprinted by permission.
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Aquinas's moral theory : essays in honor of Norman Kretzmann /
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1. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. 2. Ethics-History.
3. Kretzmann, Norman. I. Kretzmann, Norman. II. MacDonald, Scott
Charles. III. Stump, Eleonore, b. 1947.
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FOR NORMAN
Mos enim amicorum est ut cum amicus ad
suam exaltationem vadit, de eius recessu
minus desolentur.
Thomas Aquinas
Lectura super evangelium Johannis c. 14, 1. 8
Contents
Abbreviations .................................................................................... .ix
Modern Editions of Aquinas's Works ............... :. ........................... xi
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
Scott MacDonald and Eleonore Stump
I
MORAL THEORY AND MORAL THEOLOGY
Aquinas on Aristotelian Happiness ............................................... 15
Anthony Kenny
Wisdom: Will, Belief, and Moral Goodness .................................. 28
Eleonore Stump
Saint Thomas and the Principle of Double Effect ........................ 63
Gareth B. Matthews
Ideals of Scientia moralis and the Invention of the
Summa theologiae ............................................................................ 79
Mark D. Jordan
II
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PRACTICAL REASON
Aquinas on the Passions ................................................................ 101
Peter King
Practical Reasoning and Reasons-Explanations:
Aquinas's Account of Reason's Role in Action ....................... 133
Scott MacDonald
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viii Contents
Aquinas on Exceptions in Natural Law ...................................... 161
John Boler
III
MORAL THEORY IN PHILOSOPHY
OF LANGUAGE AND METAPHYSICS
Aquinas on Significant Utterance: Interjection,
Blasphemy, Prayer ...................................................................... 207
E. Jennifer Ashworth
Thomas Aquinas on the Good: The Relation between
Metaphysics and Ethics ............................................................. 235
Jan A. Aertsen
Degrees of Being, Degrees of Goodness: Aquinas
on Levels of Reality .................................................................... 254
Paul Vincent Spade
Norman Kretzmann's Publications on Aquinas ......................... 277
Contributors .................................................................................... 281
References to Aquinas's Works ..................................................... 283
Index of Names ............................................................................... 289
Abbreviations
Aquinas's Works
CA Catena aur ea
DEE De ente et essentia
DPN De principiis naturae
DRP De regimine principum
DW De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas
InBDH Expositio in librum Boethii De hebdomadibus
InBDT Expositio super librum Boethii De trinitate
In I Cor Super I ad Corinthios
InDA Sententia super De anima
InDSS In libros De sensu et sensato
InHeb Super ad Hebraeos
InJoh Lectura super evangelium Johannis
InM Sententia super Metaphysicam
In Matt Lectura super evangelium Matthaei
InNE Sententia libri Ethicorum
InPA Sententia super Posteriora analytica
In PH Sententia super Peri hermeneias
In Ph Sententia super Physicam
In Phil Super ad Philippenses
In Po Sententia libri Politicorum
In Rom Super ad Romanos
In Sent Scriptum super libros Sententiarum
QDM Quaestiones disputatae de malo
QDP Quaestiones disputatae de potentia
QDSC Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis
QDV Quaestiones disputatae de veritate
QDVC Quaestiones disputatae de virtutibus in communi
SCC Summa contra gentiles
ST Summa theologiae
ix
Modern Editions of Aquinas's Works
Blackfriars Summa theologiae, general editor, Thomas Gilby, (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1964-81).
Busa Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Opera omnia, edited by Roberto
Busa (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog,
1980).
Decker Sancti Thomae de Aquino Expositio super librum Boetii De
Trinitate, edited by Bruno Decker, Studien und Texte 44
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955).
Leonine Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera omnia (Rome, 1882- ).
Mandonnet-Moos Scriptum super libros Sententiarum, edited by Pierre
Mandonnet and Maria Fabianus Moos (Paris:
Lethielleux, 1929-33).
Marietti DUI edited by R. M. Spiazzi in Divi Thomae
Aquinatis Opuscula philosophica (Turin-Rome:
Marietti, 1954).
In I Cor edited by R. Cai in Super Epistolas Sancti Pauli
lectura (Turin-Rome: Marietti, 1953).
InJoh Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Evangelium Sancti
Ioannis lectura, edited by R. Cai (Turin-Rome:
Marietti, 1952).
InM Sancti Thomae Aquinatis In duodecim libros
Metaphysicorum Aristotelis expositio, edited by
M.-R. Cathala, revised by R. M. Spiazzi
(Turin-Rome: Marietti, 1950).
InNE Sancti Thomae Aquinatis In decem libros Ethico
rum Aristotelis ad Nicomachum expositio,
xi
