Course Description
The course opens with a comparison of God’s justice and human justice. Following this, topics specifically related to justice include : justice in relation to charity and other Christian virtues ; the notion of “right” in medieval and modern Catholic tradition ; society and the common good in relation to legal, distributive, and commutative justice ; specific requirements of justice regarding human life, material goods, one’s good name. After treating justice, the allied virtues are discussed with particular emphasis on religion, the chief of the moral virtues.
Bibliography
AQUINAS. Summa Theologiae I-IIae qq 19-21; II-IIae, qq 57-122;
MACINTYRE. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? University of Notre Dame, 1988. Peschke. Christian Ethics, vol. II, UK, 1997;
PIEPER. The Four Cardinal Virtues, University of Notre Dame, 1966.
STAUDT, The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology, Emmaus Academic, 2022.