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1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. |
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Tomás de Aquino, Santo -- Crítica e interpretación. |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Views on intentionality (Philosophy) |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Ethics. |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Views on action theory. |
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Act (Philosophy)
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Act (Philosophy) |
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Intentionality (Philosophy)
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Intentionality (Philosophy) |
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Will.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |
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Will. |
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Acto (Filosofía) |
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Christian philosophers -- Italy -- 13th century. |
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Will.
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| Added Author |
McInerny, Ralph.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brock, Stephen Louis. Action and conduct. Washington DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2021 9780813234250 (OCoLC)1251737177 |
| ISBN |
9780813234267 (ebook) |
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0813234263 (ebook) |
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9780813234250 (paperback) |
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0813234255 (paperback) |
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