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Article: Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good.(Book review)
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- Journal of Markets & Morality
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- September 22, 2007
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Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good
Mary Margaret Keys
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (247 pages)
When a scholar undertakes the onerous task of faithfully delineating the nuances of Thomas Aquinas's thought, he or she always renders a great service to the reader. Mary Margaret Keys has done just this. The vast expanse of Aquinas's corpus (i.e., his books) combined with the economy of his arguments and the breadth of his sources, makes any exegesis of his writings a formidable task. His notion of the common good is especially thorny, as anyone aware of the 1940s De Koninck-Eschmann-Maritain debate knows. The ...