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  • Justice as a Virtue
    Jean Porter
    “Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it — and as most people think of it today.   Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas’s account of the comp...
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    49,51 €

  • The Animal Side
    Jean-Christophe Bailly / Catherine Porter
    The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals' ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poet...
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    35,93 €

  • Ministers of the Law
    Jean Porter
    In Ministers of the Law Jean Porter articulates a theory of legal authority derived from the natural law tradition. As she points out, the legal authority of most traditions rests on their own internal structures, independent of extralegal considerations -- legal houses built on sand, as it were. Natural law tradition, on the other hand, offers a basis for legal authority that...
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    38,80 €

  • Chicago Jazz and Then Some
    Jean Porter Dmytryk
    Jess Stacy was the kindest, sweetest, most generous man to grace this Earth. It was my lucky day when I decided to buy a house in Laurel Canyon, and my husband felt the same. After years of living in Los Angeles and working the Hollywood studios, circumstances took us all over the world and we had sold our Bel Aire home. Children gone, it was just the two of us. Lookout Mountai...
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    27,00 €

  • The Stone Must Break
    Jean Lee Porter
    Pearl Harbor and the tentacles of Word War II turn San Francisco into a raucous, electrifying city. Twenty-year-old Carmel St. John moves into this maelstrom with dreams of winning the heart of Dr. Phillip Barron and becoming a big band singer. There, Carmel meets Caesar Almalto, a black-market kingpin, and Jerry Cassidy, a musician who helps her and hopes to win her love. Nigh...
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    18,51 €

  • Nature as Reason
    Jean Porter
    This noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Though this history might seem irrelevant to twenty-first-century life, Jean Porter shows that the scholastic appr...
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    47,54 €

  • Moral Action and Christian Ethics
    Jean Porter
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    64,19 €

  • Natural and Divine Law
    Jean Porter
    Though the concept of natural law took center stage during the Middle Ages, the theological aspects of this august intellectual tradition have been largely forgotten by the modern church. In this book ethicist Jean Porter shows the continuing significance of the natural law tradition for Christian ethics.Based on a careful analysis of natural law as it emerged in the medieval p...
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    30,13 €

  • Recovery of Virtue
    Jean Porter
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    33,34 €