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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pilsner, Joseph. Specification of human actions in St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)651844620 |
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Named Person: | Thomas, Aquinas Saint; Thomas, d'Aquin saint; Thomas, Aquinas Saint; Thomas, von Aquin.; Thomas (von Aquin) |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Pilsner |
ISBN: | 0199286051 9780199286058 |
OCLC Number: | 62796071 |
Description: | xi, 273 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Human actions and Aquinas's moral theory -- Two fundamental types of specification -- End -- Object -- Matter -- Circumstance -- Motive -- Proximate and remote ends. |
Series Title: | Oxford theological monographs. |
Responsibility: | Joseph Pilsner. |
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Abstract:
Human actions can be identified by species, such as murder, theft, or almsgiving. But how does one determine to which kind an action belongs? Joseph Pilsner explores Thomas Aquinas's answer to this philosophical question.
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...comprehensive and insightful study. * Jean Porter, Religious Studies *
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