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101. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Stephanie Rumpza A Phenomenology of the Christian Life: Glory and Night. By Felix Ó Murchadha
102. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Michael J. Dodds, O.P. Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil. By John F. X. Knasas
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Deane-Peter Baker Abortion and Civil Disobedience
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Many believe strongly that states, even democratic states, commit serious moral harm by adopting policies that allow elective abortions. What avenues are available to citizens of those states who oppose such policies? In this paper I contest Nicholas Dixon’s claim that there is only a very limited scope for acts of civil disobedience in response to pro-abortion state policy. While acknowledging that a state policy of not allowing elective abortions imposes significant burdens on pregnant women, I contend that a consistent political liberalism—committed to the idea of state neutrality—must recognize the validity of significant, even invasive, civil disobedience in response to states that follow a policy of allowing elective abortions.
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Rev. Anthony E. Giampietro One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics. By Alexander Pruss
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Clare Carlisle Spinoza On Eternal Life
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This article argues that Spinoza’s account of the eternity of the mind in Part V of the Ethics offers a re-interpretation of the Christian doctrine of eternal life. While Spinoza rejects the orthodox Christian teaching belief in personal immortality and the resurrection of the body, he presents an alternative account of human eternity that retains certain key characteristics of the Johannine doctrine of eternal life, especially as this is articulated in the First Letter of John. The article shows how Spinoza’s account of human eternity reflects two key principles of his philosophy: the ideal of union with God, and the possibility of the human being’s ontological transformation through this union.
106. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Patrick J. Connolly Henry of Ghent’s Argument for Divine Illumination Reconsidered
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In this paper I offer a new approach to Henry of Ghent’s argument for divine illumination. Normally, Henry is criticized for adhering to a theory of divine illumination and failing to accept rediscovered Aristotelian approaches to cognition and epistemology. I argue that these critiques are mistaken. On my view, Henry was a proponent of Aristotelianism. But Henry discovered a tension between Aristotle’s views on teleology and the nature of knowledge, on the one hand, and various components of the Christian worldview, on the other. I argue that Henry’s adherence to a theory of divine illumination was an attempt to preserve various components of the Aristotelian system, not an attempt to reject Aristotelianism.
107. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Jamie Anne Spiering “What is Freedom?”: An Instance of the Silence of St. Thomas
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Josef Pieper wrote about “the silence of St. Thomas”—faced with some of philosophy’s toughest questions, Thomas does not give “a textbook reply.” In this paper, I note an instance of such silence: Thomas gives no dogmatic, unequivocal answer to the question “What is freedom?” and this omission seems to have been deliberate. While his predecessors and contemporaries (such as Albert the Great and Henry of Ghent) discussed the definition of freedom formally, Thomas does not do so, nor does he offer a precise account of libertas. Why would Thomas avoid this debate? An answer is necessarily tentative, but I argue that Thomas wanted to simplify his treatment of the power of choice. In addition, he may be convinced that freedom is best understood as instantiated within a nature or its powers, making any abstract consideration fundamentally unfruitful.
108. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Rogelio Rovira On the Manifold Meaning of Value according to Dietrich von Hildebrand and the Need for a Logic of the Concept of Value
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Hildebrand’s basic contribution to phenomenological axiology can be summarized as follows: the concept of value is, in one sense, narrower than most phenomenologists have suggested; but, in another sense, is broader than any phenomenologist has believed necessary to defend. According to Hildebrand, the name of “value” can only be properly applied to “the intrinsically important.” But the intrinsically important has to be described phenomenologically both in its pure qualitative content and in its relation to being. Thus, four kinds of specifically distinct values appear: (1) the qualitative values; (2) the ontological values; (3) the values of perfection or technical values; and (4) the formal value of “being something.” Hildebrand’s contribution poses a difficult question which he himself does not deal with: what unity do these several meanings of value have? The mere indication of the problem suggests any solution requires a rigorous logic of the concept of value.
109. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Brandon Dahm Distinguishing Desire and Parts of Happiness: A Response to Germain Grisez
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Germain Grisez has recently argued that Aquinas’s claim that God alone is our ultimate end is incompatible with other claims central to Aquinas’s account of happiness. Two of these arguments take their point of departure from Aquinas’s distinction between essential perfections and perfections of well-being. I argue that both of these arguments fail. The first, which argues that the distinction is incompatible with the beatific vision being perfect fulfillment, fails because it neglects a distinction between essential and accidental perfectibility. In the second, Grisez argues that Aquinas’s distinction between types of happiness is incompatible with his claim that the beatific vision satisfies all desire. I argue that Aquinas makes a distinction between two types of desire that rebuts the objection. I conclude by explaining how clarifying these distinctions in perfectibility and desire allows for a more nuanced account of the happiness of the separated, beatified soul.
110. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
William E. Tullius Renewal and Tradition: Phenomenology as “Faith Seeking Understanding” in the Work of Edmund Husserl
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This paper seeks to understand the place of phenomenology within the Christian philosophical tradition. Contrary to common conceptions of phenomenology, and in spite of Husserl’s own description of phenomenology as an “a-theistic” project, this paper will attempt to interpret the complex relationship of Husserl’s understanding of phenomenology to the religious tradition ultimately as a function of that very tradition. In so doing, this paper will explore the philosophical concept of “vocation” in Husserl’s usage, its application to the intended role of phenomenology as an agent of moral and religious “renewal,” and the role played by the concept of tradition in Husserl’s thought, which demands explicit reflection on Husserl’s own relation to the tradition. This will allow the possibility of re-envisioning the overall sense of phenomenological discussion and its place within the tradition of philosophy, particularly in the relation of Husserlian phenomenology to the Anselmian project of “faith seeking understanding.”
111. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Therese Scarpelli Cory Memory in Augustine’s Theological Anthropology. By Paige E. Hochschild
112. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 1
Charles Taliaferro Mind, Matter and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind. By James D. Madden
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Jesse Couenhoven Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation In Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis. By Sarah Catherine Byers
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Antonio Calcagno La Presenza di Duns Scoto Nel Pensiero di Edith Stein: La Questione Dell’individualità. By Francesco Alfieri
115. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 2
Dennis L. Sepper Imagination and Postmodernity. By Patrick L. Bourgeois
116. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 2
Philip Rolnick Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas. By Michael J. Dodds, O.P.
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Patrick Toner Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. By Edward Feser
118. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 89 > Issue: 2
Lance Byron Richey Sartre: A Philosophical Biography. By Thomas R. Flynn
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Giuseppe Butera Living The Good Life: A Beginner’s Thomistic Ethics. By Steven J. Jensen
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Colleen Mccluskey Human Action In Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham. By Thomas M. Osborne, Jr.