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2006, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Why Aquinas? : reconsidering and reconceiving the common good
The promise and problem of the common good : contemporary experience and classical articulation
Why Aquinas : centrality of the concept and focus on foundations
An overview of the argument, by parts and chapters
Contemporary responses to the problem of the common good : three Anglo-American theories
Liberal deontologism : contractarian common goods in Rawls's theory of justice
Communitarianism or civic republicanism : Sandel against common-sense "otherness"
A third way? : Galston on the common goods of liberal pluralism
Unearthing and appropriating Aristotle's foundations : from three Anglo-American theorists back to Thomas Aquinas
Aristotelianism and political-philosophic foundations, old and new
Aristotle's three political-philosophic foundations in Thomas Aquinas's thought
The first foundation and Aquinas's Commentary : human nature as "political and social" in politics
Reinforcing the foundations : Aquinas on the problem of political virtue and regime-centered political science
The second foundation and Aquinas's commentary : human beings and citizens in politics
Faults in the foundations : the uncommented politics and the problem of regime particularity
Politics pointing beyond the polis and the politeia : Aquinas's new foundations
Finishing the foundations and beginning to build : Aquinas on human action and excellence as social, civic, and religious community, common good, and goodness of will
Natural sociability and the extension of the human act
Cardinal virtues as social and civic virtues with a divine exemplar
Remodeling the moral edifice : Aquinas and Aristotelian magnanimity
Aristotle on magnanimity as virtue
Aquinas's commentary on the magnanimity of the Nicomachean ethics
The Summa theologiae on magnanimity and some "virtues of acknowledged dependence"
Remodeling the moral edifice : Aquinas and Aristotelian legal justice
Aristotle on legal justice
Aquinas's commentary on legal justice in the Nicomachean ethics
Legal justice and natural law in the Summa theologiae
Aquinas's two pedagogies : human law and the good of moral virtue
Aquinas's negative narrative, or how law can curb moral vice
Beyond reform school : law's positive pedagogy of virtue according to Aquinas
Universality and particularity, law and liberty
Thomistic legal pedagogy and liberal-democratic polities
Theological virtue and Thomistic political theory
The problematic political promotion of theological virtue
Infused moral virtue and civic legal justice
Thomistic and Aristotelian moderation for the common good.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.01/1
Library of Congress
JC330.15 .K49 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
255

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Open Library
OL3419744M
Internet Archive
aquinasaristotle0000keys
ISBN 10
0521864739
LCCN
2005036292
OCLC/WorldCat
62741385
Goodreads
760521

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