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| Author(s): |
Joel Pinheiro da Fonseca
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-02-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Carlos Estevao;
Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira;
Marco Aurélio Oliveira da Silva
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| Advisor: | Jose Carlos Estevao |
| Abstract | |
The present study focuses on Aquinass exposition of practical reason, analyzed in light of its first principles. We begin with the question of how an individual human being discovers what is good and bad for himself, which is at the root of natural law, that is, rationally grounded morality. This requires covering two distinct moments of Aquinass work: his treatment of synderesis and, after it, how the principles apprehended by synderesis relate to one another and what kind of knowledge they give to the human mind. It is argued that it is a mistake to see the first practical principles as normative in the deontological sense. Rather, they are directive, furnishing practical reason with the goods on whose possession human happiness depends. The implications of this reading for Aquinass ethics are then analyzed and his ethical stance emerges as strongly eudaimonistic. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/06840-2 - Aprehension of the first principles of natural law in Thomas Aquinas |
| Grantee: | Joel Pinheiro da Fonseca |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |