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Narrative and the Natural Law - by Pamela M Hall (Hardcover)

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  • With Narrative and the Natural Law Pamela Hall brings Thomistic ethics into conversation with ongoing debates in contemporary moral philosophy, especially virtue theory and moral psychology, and with current trends in narrative theory and the philosophy of history.
  • About the Author: Pamela M. Hall is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 168 Pages
  • Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement, Natural Law

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With Narrative and the Natural Law Pamela Hall brings Thomistic ethics into conversation with ongoing debates in contemporary moral philosophy, especially virtue theory and moral psychology, and with current trends in narrative theory and the philosophy of history. Pamela M. Hall's study offers a solid, challenging alternative to rigid, legalistic interpretations of the substantial discussion of law in Aquinas's Summa theologiae and defends Aquinas's ethics from charges of excessive legalism.

Hall argues that Aquinas's characterization of the content and relationship of natural, human and divine law indicates that his understanding of the quest for the human good is practical, communal, and historical. Hall maintains that natural law, the ongoing inquiry into what is the human good, is narrative both in terms of its internal structure and its being informed by the specific story of Scripture. According to Aquinas the discovery of natural law is enacted historically and progressively within communities and by individuals through a process of practical reasoning. Hall then goes on to show how natural law requires articulation by human law, and how both are connected to divine law (salvation history) as Aquinas understands it. Aquinas represents inquiry into the human good as a kind of historical narrative or story with stages or "chapters"; thus knowledge of natural law requires time and experience, as well as sustained reflection by individuals and by whole communities. Such learning of natural law implies the operation of prudence and the assistance of the moral virtues.



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"Narrative and the Natural Law achieves an important advance in the interpretation of Thomistic ethics through the application of the literary concept of dramatic narrative to the moral life. Hall takes on standard interpretations of Thomistic natural law theory and its neo-Aristotelian rivals in order to develop a new reading of Aquinas . . . . Hall's reading of Aquinas permits a deeper understanding of moral life." --International Philosophical Quarterly



"Hall's interpretation of the natural law is philosophically sophisticated and theologically satisfying . . . . She has shown how it is possible to affirm the existence of a natural law, with real normative content, without denying either the importance of history and experience, or the necessity of divine guidance in moral matters. Those who were inclined to reject a doctrine of the natural law out of hand will need to reconsider that rejection in the light of Hall's innovative reading." --Studies in Christian Ethics



"Pamela Hall's excellent book replies to Nussbaum and other critics who share the view that Thomistic natural law is at odds with virtue ethics and is, therefore, an unsatisfactory moral philosophy. Beginning with the opening chapter ... she effectively argues that these thinkers overlook that virtue and natural law harmonize and reinforce each other in moral experience because of the historical and social character of human life, which Hall explicates by an appeal to MacIntyre's narrative ethics." --International Studies in Philosophy




About the Author



Pamela M. Hall is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.83 Inches (H) x 5.78 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .87 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 168
Genre: Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement
Sub-Genre: Natural Law
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Pamela M Hall
Language: English
Street Date: December 31, 1994
TCIN: 1005523044
UPC: 9780268014773
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-9129
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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