Did Aquinas Justify the Transition from ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’? by Piotr Lichacz
Did Aquinas Justify the Transition from ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’? by Piotr Lichacz
Author(s): Kaz KukielaSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: Aristotle; David Hume; G. E. Moore; Piotr Lichacz; Thomas Aquinas; naturalistic fallacy; normative; descriptive; is/ought; natural sciences; anthropology; ontology; teleology; ethics; human nature;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is a review of the book: Piotr Lichacz, O.P., Did Aquinas Justify the Transition from ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’? (Warszawa: Instytut Tomistyczny, 2010). According to the author, Lichacz’s book provides a comprehensive analysis of Thomas Aquinas’s anthropological and teleological methodology of philosophy. Consequently, it develops a supervenient and normative characteristic of natural finality onto the description of the human being as discovered in the natural sciences.
Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
- Issue Year: 9/2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 495-498
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English