Justice as a Virtue
Aquinas, says Jean Porter, gets justice right. In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it - and as most people think of it today. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas's account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aqu…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4674-4620-4
- EAN: 9781467446204
- Produktnummer: 37846860
- Verlag: Eerdmans
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Jean Porter is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at theUniversity of Notre Dame. Her books include Natural andDivine Law and Nature as Reason.
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