Dell'Olio, Andrew J.: Foundations of Moral Selfhood

Aquinas on Divine Goodness and the Connection of the Virtues. Andrew J. Dell'Olio shows how Aquinas's metaphysics of goodness allows him to harmonize secular and religious virtues within the individual so as not to compromise the unity of the moral self. Aquinas is seen as presenting a theory of self-perfection that requires both self-development and self-abnegation, depicting each as ways of participating in the divine. The significance for contemporary virtue ethics of what Dell'Olio calls a «deep conception of the good» is also explored. Foundations of Moral Selfhood is relevant to the revival of Neo-Aristotelianism and Thomism in ethics, as well as to recent attempts to articulate forms of ethical Platonism and religious morality in a pluralistic society. XI,203 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Theoretical and Applied Ethics; vol. 8/Peter Lang Verlag 2003) Mängelexemplar