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Subject(s)

• Thomas Aquinas, Saint 1225?-1274 [Browse]
• Ethics [Browse]

Series

Oxford theological monographs. [More in this series]

Summary note

Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions have species, such as theft or almsgiving. A problem arises, however, concerning his teaching on how such moral kinds are determined. Aquinas uses five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance, and motive - to identify what gives species to human actions. Although similarities in meaning can be discerned between certain of these terms, apparent differences between others make it difficult to grasp how all five could refer to whatspecifies human actions. Joseph Pilsner examines and compares Aquinas's understanding of these five terms to see

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Human actions and Aquinas's moral theory
• Two fundamental types of specification
• End
• Object
• Matter
• Circumstance
• Motive
• Proximate and remote ends.

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ISBN

• 0-19-160869-6
• 1-281-15422-9
• 1-4356-3125-0
• 9786611154226
• 0-19-153666-0

OCLC

• 742333471
• 427507861

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