Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I Virtue, Law, and the Problem of the Common Good
1 Why Aquinas?: Reconsidering and Reconceiving the Common Good
1.1 The Promise and Problem of the Common Good: Contemporary Experience and Classical Articulation
Rights Rhetoric and the Promise of the Common Good
Religion, Realism, and the Problem of the Common Good
Religion
Utilitarianism as “Realism”
1.2 Why Aquinas? Centrality of the Concept and Focus on Foundations
Aquinas on the Common Good and Aristotle’s Foundations
1.3 An Overview of the Argument by Parts and Chapters
2 Contemporary Responses to the Problem of the Common Good: Three Anglo-American Theories
2.1 Liberal Deontologism: Contractarian Common Goods in Rawls's Theory of Justice
The Common Good of A Theory of Justice
2.2 Communitarianism or Civic Republicanism: Sandel against Commonsense "Otherness"
2.3 A Third Way? Galston on the Common Goods of Liberal Pluralism
Value Pluralism and the Common Good
Part II Aquinas's Social and Civic Foundations
3 Unearthing and Appropriating Aristotle's Foundations: From Three Anglo-American Theorists Back to Thomas Aquuinas
3.1 Aristotelianism and Political-Philosophic Foundations, Old and New
3.2 Aristotle's Three Political-Philosophic Foundations in Thomas Aquinas's Thought
3.3 The First Foundation and Aquinas's Commentary: Human Nature as "Political and Social" in Politics I
Aquinas and “the Philosopher”
Aquinas and Aristotle’s Politics: A Brief History
Aquinas on Aristotle’s First Foundation in Politics I
4 Reinforcing the Foundations: Aquinas on the Problem of Political Virtue and Regime-Centered Political Science
4.1 The Second Foundation and Aquinas's Commentary: Human Beings and Citizens in Politics III
Aristotle’s Second Foundation
Aquinas’s Commentary on the Second Civic Foundation
4.2 Faults in the Foundations: The Uncommented Politics and the Problem of Regime Particularity
4.3 Politics Pointing beyond the Polis and the Politeia: Aquinas's New Foundations
Aquinas's Own Foundations: Natural Law and the Inclination to Moral Virtue
Natural Right and Natural Law: Aquinas’s “Tendentious Glosses” on Nicomachean Ethics V.7
5 Finishing the Foundations and Beginning to Build: Aquinas on Human Action and Excellence as Social, Civic, and Religious
5.1 Community, Common Good, and Goodness of Will
5.2 Natural Sociability and the Extension of the Human Act
5.3 Cardinal Virtues as Social and Civic Virtues – with a Divine Exemplar
The Four Cardinal Virtues
From Aristotle to the Platonists, Cicero, and Augustine
Close Contenders for Cardinal Virtues
Part III Moral Virtues at the Nexus of Personal and Common Goods
6 Remodeling the Moral Edifice (I): Aquinas and Aristotelian Magnanimity
6.1 Aristotle on Magnanimity as Virtue
6.2 Aquinas's Commentary on the Magnanimity of the Nicomachean Ethics
6.3 The Summa Theologiae on Magnanimity and Some "Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence"
Gratitude
Humility
7 Remodeling the Moral Edifice (II): Aquinas and Aristotelian Legal Justice
7.1 Aristotle on Legal Justice
Aristotle’s Legal Justice
7.2 Aquinas's Commentary on Legal Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics
General Justice as a Specific Moral Virtue
Legal Justice as Agent-Perfecting
Political Regimes and the Problematic of Legal Justice
7.3 Legal Justice and Natural Law in the Summa Theologiae
Prioritizing the Common Good before the Law
Natural Law and Aquinas’s Legal Justice
The Dialectical Return to Human Law and Politics
The End of the Dialectic: Equating Moral with Political Virtue?
Defending the Moral Priority of Legal Justice
Part IV Politics, Human law, and Transpolitical Virtue
8 Aquina's Two Pedagogies: Human Law and the Good of Moral Virtue
8.1 Aquinas's Negative Narrative, or How Law Can Curb Moral Vice
8.2 Beyond Reform School: Law's Positive Pedagogy According to Aquinas
8.3 Universality and Particularity, Law and Liberty
8.4 Thomistic Legal Pedagogy and Liberal-Democratic Polities
9 Theological Virtue and Thomistic Political Theory
9.1 The Problematic Political Promotion of Theological Virtue
9.2 Infused Moral Virtue and Civic Legal Justice
9.3 Thomistic and Aristotelian Moderation for the Common Good
Works Cited
Index