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- Title: Joseph Pilsner: The Specification of Human Actions in St. Thomas Aquinas
- Author : Philosophy in Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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Joseph Pilsner The Specification of Human Actions in St. Thomas Aquinas. Toronto and New York: Oxford University Press 2006. Pp. 288. Cdn$160.05/US$99.00 (cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928605-8). Undergraduates coming to the philosophical methodology utilized by Thomas Aquinas often are told that Aquinas never met a distinction he didn't like! Pilsner's magisterial study on the nature of the human act--actio humana--in Aquinas certainly meets that principle. This study is an impressive account of Aquinas on the nature of action theory and the underlying structures central to that theory as developed in Aquinas' moral and political theory. Pilsner is to be congratulated for tending to this tedious task with alacrity and sophistication. This is not a run of the mill book in narrow neo-Thomism but a sophisticated analysis of the philosophical moves Aquinas undertook throughout his philosophical writings trying to come to terms with the human act. That Aquinas has certain teleological leanings is not to be denied. Nonetheless, he is far from a simple-minded consequentialist; hence, what is necessary is to determine the nature of the human act that is central to Aquinas' moral theory.