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Aquinas and Empowerment : Classical title: Ethics for Ordinary Lives Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments author: Harak, G. Simon publisher: Georgetown University Press isbn10 | asin: 087840614X print isbn13: 9780878406142 ebook isbn13: 9780585276526 language: English Ethics, Ethics, Modern--20th century, , Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274-- subject Ethics, Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225? -1274--Influence. publication date: 1996 lcc: BJ1031.A73 1996eb ddc: 170 Ethics, Ethics, Modern--20th century, , Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274-- subject: Ethics, Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225? -1274--Influence. Page i Aquinas and Empowerment Page ii MORAL TRADITIONS & MORAL ARGUMENTS A SERIES EDITED BY JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J. The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love STEPHEN J. POPE Love, Human and Divine: The Heart of Christian Ethics EDWARD COLLINS VACEK, S.J. Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray, S.J. J. LEON HOOPER, S.J., editor The Context of Casuistry Edited by JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J. and THOMAS A. SHANNON Page iii Aquinas and Empowerment Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives Edited by G. Simon Harak, S.J. Page iv Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. © 1996 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1996 THIS VOLUME IS PRINTED ON ACID-FREE OFFSET BOOK PAPER Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aquinas and empowerment : classical ethics for ordinary lives / G. Simon Harak, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and and index. 1. Ethics. 2. Ethics, Modern20th century. 3. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?1274Ethics. 4. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?1274 Influence. I. Harak, G. Simon, 1948 . BJ1031.A73 1996 170dc20 ISBN 0-87840-604- 2 (cloth : alk. paper) 95-42743 Page v To all from whom we have learned. And, of course, to the One Teacher. Page vii Contents Introduction ix Getting Egypt out of the People: Aquinas's Contributions 1 to Liberation Judith W. Kay Taking Women's Experience Seriously: Thomas Aquinas 47 and Audre Lorde on Anger Diana Fritz Cates Child Abuse and Embodiment from a Thomistic 89 Perspective G. Simon Harak, S. J. Growing Together in the Divine Love: The Role of 134 Charity in the Moral Theology of Thomas Aquinas Paul J. Wadell, C.P. Epieikeia and the Accomplishment of the Just 170 Romanus Cessario, O.P. Index 207 Page ix Introduction This book draws together essays by scholars who are struggling to address specific areas of need in our modern world and who have found themselves relying on Thomas Aquinas to help them in their efforts. Judith Kay first approached me with the idea for such a volume two years ago. She observed that many "new scholars" were using Thomas Aquinas as a primary resource for structuring their ethical reflections. What if we offered those new scholars an opportunity to grapple with specific issues in current ethical discourse? And what if we asked them to make their reliance on Thomas explicit? The result would be a unique perspective on these current issues, together with a deeper appreciation, and perhaps even a clarification, of the writings of Thomas. I believe we have been faithful to Dr. Kay's academic vision in Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives. We take the term "ordinary lives" from Charles Taylor, whose work remarks on "the continuation in modern culture of a trend that is now centuries old and places the centre of gravity not in some higher sphere but in what I want to call 'ordinary life/ that is, the life of production and the family, of work and love." 1 It is to that specific, ordinary dimension of modern life that we address our Thomistic ethics. The book begins with Dr. Kay's essay, "Getting Egypt out of the People: Aquinas's Contributions to Liberation." In that essay, Kay brings together several important notions in Taylor's philosophy. Taylor observes that although our modern identities are supposed to be "inwardly generated," the nature of our ordinary lives requires that "I negotiate [my identity] through dialogue, partly overt, partly internalized, with others."2 Taylor is also aware of "how identity can be formed or malformed in our contact with significant others.''3 In her essay, Kay examines that inward deformation of our identities
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