Author: Thomas D'Andrea (Thomas D'Andrea)

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Thomas D'Andrea

Thomas D. D’Andrea is a former Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program of Princeton University and a former fellow of Wolfson College at Cambridge University. He has lectured with the Politics Department at Princeton and in the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. His research interests include the moral and political thought of the Aristotelian tradition. He has published articles and reviews in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He is considered an expert in the philosophical thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and his book on this matter “Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue: The Thought of Alasdair MacIntyre” is described as “unrivaled in its range and attention . . . No-one seriously interested in the course of development of one of the main philosophical projects of the present day can afford to overlook this welcome guide.”

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August 22, 2021August 22, 2021NLNRAC, Philosophy

The Natural Law Theory of Thomas Aquinas

By Thomas D'Andrea

Law, of its various sorts, has a role to play in humans’ full realization of their nature by free acts. What role? To ask this question is to seek to grasp Thomas’s natural law teaching in the context of his overall metaphysical cosmology.

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The Natural Law Theory of Thomas Aquinas

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