How Long to Read Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

How Long Does it Take to Read Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae by James F. Keenan, SJ

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Description

This appraisal of two of the most fundamental terms in the moral language of Thomas Aquinas draws on the contemporary moral distinction between the goodness of a person and the rightness of a person's living. Keenan thus finds that Aquinas's earlier writings do not permit the possibility of such a distinction. But in his mature works, specifically the Summa Theologiae, Thomas describes the human act of moral intentionality, and even the virtues in a way analogous to our use of the term moral rightness. To Thomas, only the virtue of charity expresses moral goodness. And, although Thomas describes vices and sin as wrong conduct, he never really develops a description for moral badness.Keenan compels us to carefully examine Thomas's central moral concepts and to measure them against contemporary standards for meaning and correctness. As a result, any student of Thomas will find here a forceful argument that his notion of the good is considerably different from ours. Similarly, ethicists and moral theologians will find in the Thomas presented here a consistent-virtue ethicist concerned with descriptions for right living. Any student of theology will also find here a Thomas whose critical and concrete thinking enabled him to develop and even abandon earlier positions as his comprehension of the Good evolved. This analysis prompts a re-examination of our own concepts. Measuring Thomas's standards against our own, Keenan obliges us to ask whether we sufficiently understand rightness and moral intentionality. He also asks whether we correctly describe what it means to will or to desire something. He further questions whether we have surrendered our understanding of the virtues to the voluntarism and subjectivism which Thomas relentlessly critiqued. This historically sophisticated reading of the Summa Thologiae both allows Thomas to speak again as he once did, and affords us the chance to evaluate the way we describe ourselves and one another as being good and living rightly.

How long is Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae?

Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae by James F. Keenan, SJ is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae aloud.

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Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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