Table of Contents

Part 1 Precepts: acts amid precepts; the precepts of natural law; the derivation of lower from higher principles; commensurability and incommensurability. Part Two: Acts: voluntas Aristotelian and Thomistic; practical reason and concrete arts; the principle of double effect and fixed paths; acts amid precepts - II. Appendixes: Suma Theologiae I-II q.94 a.2 (English translation); Suma Theologiae I-II q.94 a.2 (Latin); the per se in Thomas Aquinas; the dating of De Malo q.6; De Malo q.6 (English translation); De Malo q.6 (Latin).

About the Author

Dr. Raymond B. Flannery, Jr. Ph.D., is the author of several books including "Preventing Youth Violence: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors" (Continuum, 1999.) He is on the faculties of both Harvard Medical School and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He works as a violence-prevention consultant both here and abroad. He lives in the suburbs of Boston.