Justice as a Virtue
A Thomistic Perspective
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 Aq…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8028-7325-5
- EAN: 9780802873255
- Produktnummer: 19708978
- Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 467 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 467
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