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Applying the ethical concepts of Thomas Aquinas to contemporary moral problems, this book both presents new interpretations of Thomist theology and offers new insights into todays perplexing moral dilemmas. This volume addresses such contemporary issues as internalized oppression, especially as it relates to women and African-Americans; feminism and anger; child abuse; friendship and charity; and finally, justice and reason. The collection revives Aquinas as an ethicist who has relevant things to say about contemporary concerns. These essays illustrate how Thomistic ethics can encourage and empower people in moral struggles. As the first book to use Aquinas to explore such issues as child abuse and oppression, it includes a variety of approaches to Aquinas ethics. Aquinas and Empowerment is a valuable resource for students of classical thought and contemporary ethics.
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Aquinas and Empowerment : Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments
author
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Harak, G. Simon
publisher
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Georgetown University Press
isbn10 | asin
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087840614X
print isbn13
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9780878406142
ebook isbn13
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9780585276526
language
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English
subject
Ethics, Ethics, Modern--20th century, , Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274--Ethics, Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274--Influence.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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BJ1031.A73 1996eb
ddc
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170
subject
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Ethics, Ethics, Modern--20th century, , Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274--Ethics, Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274--Influence.
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Aquinas and Empowerment
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MORAL TRADITIONS & MORAL ARGUMENTS A SERIES EDITED BY JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J.
The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love STEPHEN J. POPE
Love, Human and Divine: The Heart of Christian Ethics EDWARD COLLINS VACEK, S.J.
Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray, S.J. J. LEON HOOPER, S.J., editor
The Context of Casuistry Edited by JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J. and THOMAS A. SHANNON
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Aquinas and Empowerment
Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives
Edited by G. Simon Harak, S.J.
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Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 1996 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1996
THIS VOLUME IS PRINTED ON ACID-FREE OFFSET BOOK PAPER
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aquinas and empowerment : classical ethics for ordinary lives / G. Simon Harak, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and and index. 1. Ethics. 2. Ethics, Modern20th century. 3. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?1274Ethics. 4. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?1274 Influence. I. Harak, G. Simon, 1948 . BJ1031.A73 1996 170dc20 ISBN 0-87840-604-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 95-42743
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To all from whom we have learned. And, of course, to the One Teacher.
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Contents
Introduction
ix
Getting Egypt out of the People: Aquinas's Contributions to Liberation
Judith W. Kay
1
Taking Women's Experience Seriously: Thomas Aquinas and Audre Lorde on Anger
Diana Fritz Cates
47
Child Abuse and Embodiment from a Thomistic Perspective
G. Simon Harak, S. J.
89
Growing Together in the Divine Love: The Role of Charity in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Paul J. Wadell, C.P.
134
Epieikeia and the Accomplishment of the Just
Romanus Cessario, O.P.
170
Index
207
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Introduction
This book draws together essays by scholars who are struggling to address specific areas of need in our modern world and who have found themselves relying on Thomas Aquinas to help them in their efforts. Judith Kay first approached me with the idea for such a volume two years ago. She observed that many "new scholars" were using Thomas Aquinas as a primary resource for structuring their ethical reflections. What if we offered those new scholars an opportunity to grapple with specific issues in current ethical discourse? And what if we asked them to make their reliance on Thomas explicit? The result would be a unique perspective on these current issues, together with a deeper appreciation, and perhaps even a clarification, of the writings of Thomas.
I believe we have been faithful to Dr. Kay's academic vision in Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives. We take the term "ordinary lives" from Charles Taylor, whose work remarks on "the continuation in modern culture of a trend that is now centuries old and places the centre of gravity not in some higher sphere but in what I want to call 'ordinary life/ that is, the life of production and the family, of work and love."1 It is to that specific, ordinary dimension of modern life that we address our Thomistic ethics.
The book begins with Dr. Kay's essay, "Getting Egypt out of the People: Aquinas's Contributions to Liberation." In that essay, Kay brings together several important notions in Taylor's philosophy. Taylor observes that although our modern identities are supposed to be "inwardly generated," the nature of our ordinary lives requires that "I negotiate [my identity] through dialogue, partly overt, partly internalized, with others."2 Taylor is also aware of "how identity can be formed or malformed in our contact with significant others.''3 In her essay, Kay examines that inward deformation of our identities
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through exchange with significant others. Specifically, she sees Thomas as providing a framework for understanding the phenomenon of internalized oppression, classically expressed in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Thomas teaches that anger arises from unmerited slights to our excellences. By focusing on the ordinary lives of white working-class men, Kay suggests that those unmerited slights are offenses to our very nature, and therefore hurtful regardless of whether or not they are socially constructed as slights. Kay examines the habits of internalized oppression under the rubric of
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