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    K Ten Peasons why Thomas Aquinas is Important for Ethics Today James F, Keenan SJ Recently several ‘works that stady Thomes Aquinas's cihics have been published* Whi is it, 10, that a return to Thomss's ethics yields insighis into his writings that have escaped us for decades, even centu iea? Why is a reflection that prompts new writers 19 find fresh visi people respect the individual conscience while maintaining a sense of the objectively right and wrong, Thomas provides a framework in which wo cen achieve both. inorder to demonstrate how Thomas accomplishes this, 354 LEE Pe or tne mat re . Rather than retreat from public Ife. Thomas believes that good ‘religiows life, ike good theology, con be at hornet the life ofthe ety. AL the age of six, Thomas's pareats sent him to the famous -eques'tat we ought to rete to small cloned communi, instruct one 355 ‘Conmensary on the Sentences, Thomas constrci his Suma Theologioe, re "Wend wectoss wen to {ife, Moreover, be brackets the midds per on tho mom Ws with Os fem, ‘Parton God the Creator md the third part on Jesus nd the mormenta, In our own day whea s0 msay Catholics aro moro fella wis ‘Thomas, the man who joins the Order of Preachers, loves the Word. sd lives the Word, His thology sad his fife is disogical, His we of 0 raws vs int the habit of inquiring deeply. S.Thomas upholds the primacy of the conscience. [Not buprisingly, the man who draws vs into ingiry defends the seat of ribeil dictate in each person. Thoetts, instead of asking whether an : Saree go ‘what will we hood? And why? Thomas anewers thet every tare we act ‘moral objectivity. Those who argue that no one can prove the trth of is those remarks ae relativst, Soe Sy th sips ema In dhe Church today we find two claims. On the one hand there are, Asim that crtan extemal acts ave their al meaning prior 6, Thomas inch pray conc inna chely ste bec eee ‘own maxal mesting pic ‘E70up ads that we can only avoid relativism if we recognize that some of these acts, regardless of circumstances, are always immoral, They call ‘theae acts inrinsicaly evil. Interestingly, the concept intrinsically evil acts “derives from the writings of Thomas's most famous desractor in the Mth ‘century, Darandus of $i Pourcain? a imlicous ono, is wrong: ix tempera chet i inthe enon then fet oot of et hat you mistook or elinary cas. Thoma Teajuarpeoten bene ntonen ee api ow conscience, we ain (ST 1.19.3). Then, Thorns ss, Are Tok, ns Repeal ann, arty, Thoman hold tt we canna sag) 1) Serene cxpranton of te heron Ht hints crows ee eee \be insets or intra ax is righ, he extemal act is ero, (So lien ‘ave the ight intentions and sl ot the act. wrong!) Thus,.Thomas insists on moral objectivity, But within the context of argue this tocmse he cama that the objector the the stuff that one has in tho intention, ix measurable, le therefore, from saying thet mora objectivity is rooted in sovnething ike intrinsically evil acts, a 8.Thomas provides us with terms for measuring the inention, the virtues andthe vicés, tension and when they find the tension or the mean, they find the objectively right or pradent anewer.. Prudecs helps us to deteraee inthe hero and now what exacily wo spe, and De virtuibus cardinalibus (1269-1272). His singularly devolves around the virwes, ‘context, then I am not just to my readers, to Thomas, to New Blaclfriars, ‘orto myself. ‘Moreover, Thomas does not claim that a person is just by trying to be just, oF that @ courageous person is one who tries to be courageous. Rater, the jst person is ove who hes atempted and atsinod jupice: dhe moving lorward. These ae llth prudent

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