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1. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 87 > Issue: 1
Edward Feser Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought
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James Ross developed a simple and powerful argument for the immateriality of the intellect, an argument rooted in the Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition while drawing on ideas from analytic philosophers Saul Kripke, W. V. Quine, and Nelson Goodman. This paper provides a detailed exposition and defense of the argument, filling out aspects that Ross left sketchy. In particular, it elucidates the argument’s relationship to its Aristotelian-Scholastic and analytic antecedents, and to Kripke’s work especially; and it responds to objections or potential objections to be found in the work of contemporary writers like Peter Dillard, Robert Pasnau, Brian Leftow, and Paul Churchland.
2. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 87 > Issue: 1
Sarah Powrie The Importance of Fourteenth-Century Natural Philosophy for Nicholas of Cusa’s Infinite Universe
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This paper argues that Nicholas of Cusa’s investigation of infinity and incommensurability in De docta ignorantia was shaped by the mathematical innovations and thought experiments of fourteenth-century natural philosophy. Cusanus scholarship has overlooked this influence, in part because Raymond Klibansky’s influential edition of De docta ignorantia situated Cusa within the medieval Platonic tradition. However, Cusa departs from this tradition in a number of ways. His willingness to engage incommensurability and to compare different magnitudes of infinity distinguishes him from his Platonic predecessors, who had appropriated the Pythagorean model of universal harmonies. Cusa’s penchant for representing quantity geometrically suggests not only that he has adopted the fourteenth-century method of latitude measurement, but that he accepts incommensurability as normative. Finally, Cusa’s persistent attention to mathematical inaccuracy and to his own learned ignorance suggests his kinship with the meta-critical, conjectural quality of fourteenth-century thought.
3. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 87 > Issue: 1
James B. Reichmann, S.J. Edith Stein, Thomas Aquinas, and the Principle of Individuation
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This paper focuses on the major work of Edith Stein, Finite and Eternal Being. It seeks to determine whether her mature philosophical synthesis is correctly viewed as Thomist. It strives to accomplish this by focusing mainly on her treatment of the problem of individuation.
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Scott Austin Modality and Predication in Parmenides’s Fragment 8 and in Subsequent Dialectic
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In this paper I shall attempt to enter part of the way into the microstructure of the account of truth in the Parmenidean fragment 8, and to reveal that account as a dialectical sequence of affirmation and denial involving various kinds of modal utterance. The sequence will then be put into parallel with the first four hypotheses of the second half of Plato’s Parmenides as well as with Zeno and some of the later tradition.
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Maria M. Wolter Examining the Need to Complement Karol Wojtyła’s Ethical Personalism through an Ethics of Inner Responses, Fundamental Moral Attitudes, and Virtues
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An objection has been raised that Karol Wojtyła presents an ethical system heavily centered on actions and deeds. With the exception of his occasional references to the virtue of chastity in Love and Responsibility and his first writing on Saint John, some of the most central themes of ancient and medieval, as well as of contemporary, ethics seem almost entirely absent. In the following article, we will turn to Wojtyła’s most important philosophical work, The Acting Person, to glean from it his understanding of “action.” We will then turn to the writings of Dietrich von Hildebrand, as an example of a classic counterpart for any approach to man primarily through action. After briefly discussing the ethical relevance of aspects such as inner responses, fundamental moral attitudes, and virtues, we will conclude by returning to Wojtyła and re-evaluating the legitimacy of the objection raised against him.
6. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 87 > Issue: 1
Alexander Jech Affinity and Reason to Love
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What is the nature of our reasons for loving something? Why does a particular person or activity stimulate our imagination and hopes more deeply than others do? Is the reason in the object of our affection or in ourselves? Much philosophical debate revolves around this dichotomy between objective and subjective reasons for loving. In this paper I will instead propose that our reasons are primarily relational, having to do with the concept of affinity. Affinity, defined as “fitness” between two parties, allows us to analyze loving activity in terms of a practical inference concerned with a long-term engagement in activities and relationships that are worthwhile and suitable to oneself. This approach does justice to the considerations on both sides of the debate.
7. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 87 > Issue: 1
Charles M. Zola Prudential Elder Care: A Thomistic Approach
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A growing phenomenon in contemporary society is adult children caring for their elderly parents. Although some interest has been directed to the question of filial piety in general, surprisingly, scant attention has been focused on the ethical dimensions of caring for elderly parents. This article explores the contribution that Aquinas’s theory of the virtues of filial piety and prudence can make to the ethical dilemmas of elder care. In examining Aquinas’s theory, I explicate the relationship between moral agency and prudence, with a special emphasis on the relationship between the integral parts of prudence and the exercise of moral virtue. In doing so, I suggest how Aquinas’s theory can shape and guide contemporary filial piety in order to advance quality elder care.
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8. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Volume > 87 > Issue: 1
Martin Rhonheimer The Perspective of Morality Revisited: A Response to Steven J. Jensen
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In this response to Steven Jensen’s ACPQ review essay of Martin Rhonheimer’s The Perspective of Morality, its author argues that Jensen failed to understand the proper subject matter, the inner logic, and the methodology of the book. As a result, he misread key passages while passing over others, with the result that his criticisms miss the mark. Correcting these misreadings provides the occasion to explain some key features of the book, namely its idea of integrating in a single ethical theory eudaimonistic ethics and its theory of happiness with action theory, anthropology of action, a theory of practical reason, an account of the moral virtues, a doctrine of natural law, of prudence, of conscience, and of moral norms, disproving thereby Jensen’s misleading claim that the book rejects nature as a standard of ethics.
book reviews
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Gaven Kerr, O.P. Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition. By John W. Carlson
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Angela Schwenkler Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life In Ancient Philosophy From Socrates To Plotinus. By John M. Cooper
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David W. Rodick Gabriel Marcel’s Ethics of Hope: Evil, God, and Virtue. By Jill Graper Hernandez
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C. J. Wolfe Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Anthony Kenny
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Corey Miller The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts. By Andrew Pinsent
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James Jacobs Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective. By Alice Ramos
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David Carr Élargissement de la Métaphysique. By Miklòs Vetö
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Jonathan J. Sanford Rethinking Virtue Ethics. By Michael Winter
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