Freedom, Virtue, and the Common Good

Edited by Curtis L. Hancock

American Maritain Association

This collection of essays examines the requirements of a satisfactory natural law and virtue ethics, broadly understood as a moral philosophy giving primacy to character-formation and to the development of individual and social habits necessary to perfect human life. The ethics herein envisioned is one that must first be grounded in a sound philosophy of the human person. Aware of the limitations in many traditional attempts to develop a natural law morality, the contributors to FREEDOM, VIRTUE, AND THE COMMON GOOD seek remedies and prescriptions that will commission a natural law ethics for a new age.