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Justice as a Virtue

A Thomistic Perspective

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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For readers interested in philosophy and ethics

Clarifies justice beyond social institutions today

You will gain a deeper understanding of virtue ethics

This insightful book explores justice as a personal virtue through Aquinas's teachings.

Aquinas, says Jean Porter, gets justice right. In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a "personal" virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it and as most people think of it today. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas s account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the "Summa theologiae, " focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas s views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated. "
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  • Title

    Justice as a Virtue

  • Author

    Jean Porter

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Items in Pack

    1

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    November 2016

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802873255

  • ISBN-10

    0802873251

  • Eden Code

    4451026

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