Good Intentions and Bad Actions: Thomas Aquinas on the Intention in our Acting

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Good Intentions and Bad Actions: Thomas Aquinas on the Intention in our Acting
Original language description
What is a proper place of intention in the morality of an action? How is it related to the object of our acting? In this regard, some current theologians would like to see the double effect doctrine as a magic solution to avoid the interdiction of negative moral absolutes. St. Thomas with his clear scholastic thinking brings right order in fundamental moral considerations. He introduces an act having two effects, only one of which is intended, while the other is beside intention. The latter could be properly called “just chosen,” rather than intended. We must avoid any kind of angelism that emphasizes too much the role of intention in human acting. The substantial aspect of the act, the physical character of what is done, cannot be excluded. Otherwise, in order to change the nature of the object of one and the same act it would be enough just to change our description. Even the double effect principle is just a special case of the application of the teleological construction of a human action.
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
ACTA facultatis theologicae Universitatis Comenianae Bratislaviensis
ISSN
1335-8081
e-ISSN
2644-6928
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
39-56
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