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The far reaching changes in man's social and personal life taking place in our lifetime underline the need for a so

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The first comprehensive analysis of Thomas Aquinas's conception of pagan virtue, this book advances a fresh paradig

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In recent years, there has been a great revival of interest in natural law thinking, one that has occurred across a rang

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The focus of this book is morals—how human beings should live their lives. For Dewan (and Thomas Aquinas) “morals” is “t

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Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues provides essential passages from Thomas's treatment of the cardinal virtues

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Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism o

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In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas, Charles P. Nemeth investigates how, despite their differences, these tw

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