Relational Views of Humanness: The Reciprocity of Ontos and Telos

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-234
Author(s):  
Marcia Pally
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

This article explores humanity’s ontology of relationality and telos of the common good as not only inseparable but mutually constitutive, drawing on the work of Thomas Aquinas and looking into the debates between Charles De Koninck and Jacques Maritain.

scholarly journals Thomas Aquinas’ influences inInfanteD. Pedro’ “Virtuosa Benfeitoria”: Scholastic tradition in History and History of Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Terezinha Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Social Project ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The considerations on the book “VirtuosaBenfeitoria” aim atevaluating the relevance of a social project to guide the actions of the ruler and theindividuals, with a view to practical actions that converge to the common good. The infant D. Pedro, also known as the Duke of Coimbra, wrote the work. The central focus of the book is to address the sense of improvement and how the prince should practice and bestow it and how the subjects would receive and practice it. The arguments of D. Pedro to deal with the good and the society are strongly influenced by classical authorities and authors of scholasticism, especially Thomas Aquinas. In this sense, on the one hand our study seeks to show that such knowledge was essential for him to understand the plots that build human relationships, whose premises, to him, should be the ones leading society towards the common good;on the other hand, the goal is to analyze the work we regard as essential theoretical and methodological principles of history that allow us to recover, through memory, historical events that potentially guide us through paths that show the relevance of the Master of the University, as a vector in the organization of a given society. 

scholarly journals The Intellectual Pedigree of the Virtue of Magnanimity in the Jesuit Constitutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-469
Author(s):  
Kevin Spinale
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common

The article traces the development of the virtue of magnanimity in Aristotle, Cicero, and Thomas Aquinas in order to assess John O’Malley’s claim that Section 728 of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus represents a paraphrase of section i.66 of Cicero’s On Duties. For Aristotle, the virtue represents individual’s striving for greater virtue and honor. In Cicero, the virtue takes on Stoic characteristics and is tempered with justice and concern for the common good. Thomas Aquinas links the virtue to hope in initiating great enterprises and accomplishing great virtue in accord with God’s will. Ignatius uses magnanimity to indicate a virtue that synthesizes Cicero’s attention to the common good and Aquinas’s notion of hope in God’s providence. Ignatius combines this synthesis with his own inclination to take that which is excellent in others and generously incorporate it into the Society’s work in magnifying God’s glory.

scholarly journals Sacred Voters and Secular Elections:

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Joseph Twiner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
National Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Catholic Bishops

As another major national election approaches, American Catholics need a better understanding of the political conscience. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ document Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship (FCFC) attempts to provide guidance. However, the document has been roundly criticized by Catholics from various political persuasions. In attempting to understand political conscience today, it is helpful to return to the great thinkers of tradition, and in particular Thomas Aquinas. This paper aims at recovery of Thomas’ understanding of conscience, rooted in the act of synderesis and oriented towards the common good, as a fitting and critical interlocutor for FCFC.

scholarly journals The Common Good As A Social Debt and Patrimony of the Person

Lumen et Vita ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Ilboudo SJ
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual

Aristotle’s statement that the individual human being is a social or a political animal can be misguiding if we understand it as meaning that relationships between the individual and the society are natural and obvious. Individual’s dream of autonomy and ruthless struggle to access to scarce resources on one hand and liberal and competitive societies where there is no room for “lame ducks” on the other hand, can make relationships between the person and the society conflicting and violent. The consequences can be marginalization from the social order or rebellion against it.How can we strive to make person-society relationships more integrative and fecund? In other words, what skills, social ethics as a field of Christian theology and Catholic tradition does provide for the social integration of the person and the awakening of his or her social responsibility?  This paper would like to suggest and defend that the concept of the common good is a common ground for the person and the society mutual flourishing. The paragraph 26 of Gaudium et Spes defines the common good as “the sum of those conditions of social life which allow social groups and their individual members relatively thorough and ready access to their own fulfillment.” Interestingly also, Laudato Si’ builds up on the common good and defines it as “belonging to all and meant for all.” (Paragraph 23) In a more complex way, Thomas Aquinas elaborates the common good and locates it at the junction of distributive justice and piety as one’s love of his or her country. In the light of his thought, the common good as a dynamic interaction between the person and the society, becomes the cement of what Thomas Aquinas calls “civil communion.”

scholarly journals Hope in Theology

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-136
Author(s):  
David Elliot
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Powerful Source ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Social Tasks ◽  
The Common ◽  
Theological Virtue ◽  
The Way

Abstract As social, civic, and global anxieties mount, the need to overcome despair has become urgent. This chapter draws on St. Thomas Aquinas and virtue ethics to propose the theological virtue of hope as a powerful source of rejuvenation. It argues for the necessary place of theology in reflection on hope due to the religious origins of hope as a central human aspiration and virtue capable of resilience. The virtue of hope, it is suggested, sustains us from the sloth and despair that threaten amid injustice, tragedy, and death; it provides an ultimate meaning and transcendent purpose to our lives; and it encourages us “on the way” (in via) with the prospect of eternal beatitude. Rather than degrading this life and world, hope ordains earthly goods to our eschatological end, forming us to pursue justice and social tasks with a resilience and vitality that transcend widespread cynicism and disillusionment. While hope ultimately seeks the kingdom of God, it can be concluded that it contributes richly to personal happiness and the common good, even in this life, and that this may be affirmed by those who do not share the theological premises.

Medicine and the Common Good in the Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Kyle E Karches
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Individual Good ◽  
Medical Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Liberal Political Theory

Abstract Whereas bioethicists generally consider medicine a practice aimed at the individual good of each patient, in this paper I present an alternative conception of the goods of medicine. I first explain how modern liberal political theory gives rise to the predominant view of the medical good and then contrast this understanding of politics with that of Thomas Aquinas, informed by Aristotle. I then show how this Christian politics is implicit in certain aspects of contemporary medical practice and argue that Christians ought to draw more attention to this point in order to direct medicine toward the common good.

scholarly journals Natural law as a way to achieve the common good: an interpretation of Thomas Aquinas and John Finnis arguments

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 609-617
Author(s):  
Anton Didikin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
Natural Law Theory ◽  
The Common ◽  
John Finnis ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The paper interprets the arguments of Thomas Aquinas on natural law as a way to achieve the common good, which had a significant impact on John Finnis’ natural law theory. The author reveals the conceptual foundations of J. Finnis’ understanding the morally justified actions of people in the community aimed at the obtaining of basic benefits, and the debatable issues of his theory in modern philosophical and legal research. The author arrives to the conclusion that the reinterpretation of J. Finnis analysis of the grounds for ethically significant actions leads him to formulate an instrumental approach to natural law as a rational way to implement a decent life.

scholarly journals Bien común = Common good

2018 ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Timothy Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Natural Law Theory ◽  
The Common

Resumen: Existen varias concepciones o versiones del concepto de bien común. Este artículo trata de presentar un breve repaso de algunas de las más importantes. Se ofrecen ejemplos del bien común en la “nueva” teoría del derecho natural; en los pensamientos liberal y utilitario; y en los pensamientos comunitario, republicano y hegeliano. Así mismo, se añaden algunos comentarios a modo de conclusión.Palabras clave: Bien común, Aristóteles, Santo Tomás de Aquino, “nueva” teoría del derecho natural, utilitarismo, liberalismo, comunitarismo, republicanismo, hegelianismo.Abstract: There are several conceptions or versions of the concept of the common good. This article aims to provide a brief overview of some of the most prominent conceptions. Accounts are offered of the common good in new natural law theory; in liberal and utilitarian thought; and in communitarian, republican, and Hegelian thought. Some commentary is provided in a brief conclusion.Keywords: The common good, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, new natural law theory, utilitarianism, liberalism, communitarianism, republicanism, Hegelianism.

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