Books in the Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology series

Focuses on morals - how human beings should live their lives. In this book, essays treat the history of philosophy as a development that proceeds by deepening appreciation of basic questions rather than the constant replacement of one worldview by another.

This volume is designed to offer Christians and theologians an access to Karl Rahner to unpack his thinking and to make a theological inspection of his work possible. It seeks to locate a central point of departure for the theology of Rahner in the concerns and questions of human beings.

John Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the 20th century. Richly detailed, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain and Owen to build a case for existential Thomism as a valid metaphysics.

In recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest in classical conceptions of what it means for human beings to lead a good life. Although the primary focus of the return to classical thought has been Aristotle's account of virtue, the ethics of Aquinas has also received much attention.

This treatment of Thomas Aquinas's theory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. It argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better than other available theories and he contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers.

The claim that human agents are vulnerable to tragic conflict, situations in which one cannot help but do wrong, is a commonplace in contemporary moral philosophy. This book presents an alternative view while affirming that the human good can be attained only through difficulty, including the difficulty of moral conflict.

Rhonheimer applies moral theology to practical questions, such as, what does it mean to violate the natural law, or to be "unnatural"?

For Thomas Aquinas the ontological and ethical orders are not autonomous but inseparable. This book shows how traditional Natural Law was transformed by thinkers like John Locke and Kant into a doctrine compatible with early modern and modern notions of nature and morality.

From speculative theology to the exegesis of Aquinas, to contemporary North American philosophy and Catholic social and ethical thought, to the thought of Benedict XVI, this book argues the crucial importance of the proportionate natural end within the context of grace and supernatural beatitude.

Josef Pieper was one of the first modern philosophers to explore the idea of hope, and Schumacher discusses his development alongside contributions by Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Bloch and other thinkers and explores such themes as dignity, ethics, the good and the just.