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The specification of human actions in St. Thomas Aquinas /

Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions can be identified by species, such as murder, theft, or almsgiving. He used five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance and motive. This text examines how one determines to which species an act belongs.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pilsner, Joseph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Oxford theological monographs.
Subjects:
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274.
Thomas, > d'Aquin, saint, > 1225?-1274.
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274
Thomas (von Aquin)
Ethics.
Ethics
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Handlung
Filosofische antropologie.
Summa theologiae (Thomas van Aquino)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions can be identified by species, such as murder, theft, or almsgiving. He used five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance and motive. This text examines how one determines to which species an act belongs.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
ISBN:9781435631250
1435631250