Article: Flannery, Kevin L., S.J. Acts Amid Precepts: the Aristotelian Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas's Moral Theory.(Book Review)

Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001. xxiv + 325 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $39.95--Through textual analysis and an exposition of Aristotelian mathematics and logic, Acts Amid Precepts makes two points essential to a proper consideration of Thomistic moral theory. First, one must understand Aristotle's ethical theory as having the general structure of an Aristotelian science with a hierarchy of axioms, principles, definitions, and precepts. Second, Flannery proposes that through analytic and synthetic reasoning, practical acts must be evaluated within a hierarchy of cultural and professional precepts, not just the application of traditional ...

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