The Perspective of the Acting Person introduces readers to one of the most important and provocative thinkers in contemporary moral philosophy. In this collection of essays Martin Rhonheimer examines the central themes of natural law, moral action, and virtue emphasized by John Paul II's 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor. Rhonheimer's work follows the general direction taken by the encyclical through an almost unprecedented rigor of philosophical argumentation and level of engagement with both European and American scholarship. Rhonheimer argues extensively, from the texts of Aquinas,...

Rhonheimer applies moral theology to practical questions, such as, what does it mean to violate the natural law, or to be unnatural?

Rhonheimer applies moral theology to practical questions, such as, what does it mean to violate the natural law, or to be unnatural?

Comments on Aristotelian ethics and its history since Thomas Aquinas. The author presents his thesis that Aristotelian ethics limits itself to the topic of the affective conditions of practical reason. He suggests that Thomas Aquinas later provides answers to Aristotle's theory of action.

This work considers some of the most difficult and disputed questions in Catholic moral theology. With great rigour, the author addresses classic dilemmas including the morality of the procedure known as craniotomy, and of various treatments for tubal pregnancy.

Building on the renewal of Thomistic ethics encouraged by key moral encyclicals including Humanae Vitae, Veritatis Splendor, and Evangelium Vitae, Martin Rhonheimer revisits some of the most difficult questions regarding the ethics of procreation and human life.

An introduction to the study of Thomistic moral philosophy, this text is at once a return to a profound understanding of the texts of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle, and a new synthesis of the ethics for our time.

The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy offers a rich collection of essays in political philosophy by Swiss philosopher Martin Rhonheimer. Like his other books in both ethical theory and applied ethics, which have recently been published in English, the essays included are distinguished by the philosophical rigor and meticulous attention to the primary and secondary literature of the various topics discussed.