Action and conduct : Thomas Aquinas and the theory of action / Stephen L. Brock ; foreword by Ralph McInerny.

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Brock, Stephen Louis [author.]

Contributor(s):

McInerny, Ralph

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Washington DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813234267
0813234263

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Action and conduct.DDC classification:

170 22

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B765.T54 B76 2021eb

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Contents:

The analogy of action -- Agency as efficacy -- Agent-causality and finality -- The agency of the will -- Praeter intentionem.

Summary: Stephen Brock examines the relation between conduct and physical action, or between the 'will' and the real events which it effects in the world, through the works of Thomas Aquinas. Few thinkers have devoted more attention to this topic than Thomas, who has influenced mainstream modern analytic philosophy through (among others) G. E. M. Anscombe, Anthony Kenny, Roderick Chisolm and the late Alan Donagan. Demonstrating an exhaustive knowledge of Thomas and of contemporary theories of action, Professor Brock provides a new interpretation of Thomas' thought on human action and exposes the incoherence of theories which place an exclusive emphasis on the morality of subjective intention.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The analogy of action -- Agency as efficacy -- Agent-causality and finality -- The agency of the will -- Praeter intentionem.

Stephen Brock examines the relation between conduct and physical action, or between the 'will' and the real events which it effects in the world, through the works of Thomas Aquinas. Few thinkers have devoted more attention to this topic than Thomas, who has influenced mainstream modern analytic philosophy through (among others) G. E. M. Anscombe, Anthony Kenny, Roderick Chisolm and the late Alan Donagan. Demonstrating an exhaustive knowledge of Thomas and of contemporary theories of action, Professor Brock provides a new interpretation of Thomas' thought on human action and exposes the incoherence of theories which place an exclusive emphasis on the morality of subjective intention.

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