In Pursuit of Human Flourishing: A Study in Personal Violence and its Remedy, as Informed by Thomas Aquinas with Help from Aristotle and Proclus
| dc.contributor.author | Giordano, Margaret Anne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-06T18:22:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-06T18:22:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation | |
| dc.description.abstract | The work of this thesis begins with a rather obvious observation: bad things happen in this world. Very many bad things happen, very often. More specifically, people do bad things to other people, and to themselves. There are a great many people who have invested their lives in addressing varying kinds of harm within human existence, in varying expert ways. Within the messy business of thinking about bad things that happen, however, what has emerged as especially perplexing and vexing to me is the problem of the ordinary ways in which people of relatively good will do personal violence to the people around them in the world. There are of course many contexts of moral education addressing the problems of human interpersonal activity, and many contexts designed to equip people with principles and skills to be responsible human beings. Given that people of good will typically already have some form of moral code to guide their behaviors, and already have some form of moral identity to animate a desire to do good, what can be done about the problem? How are people who already have a desire to do good and a sense of what the good is to approach the reality that they actually at times do harm? Further, how are they to be helped to do otherwise? This is the problem that this thesis will address – a difficulty that we will refer to as the problem of personal violence. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Giordano, M.A. (2024). In Pursuit of Human Flourishing: A Study in Personal Violence and its Remedy, as Informed by Thomas Aquinas with Help from Aristotle and Proclus ([Doctoral dissertation, Institute for Christian Studies and Vrije Universiteit]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10756/620249 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Christian Studies | |
| dc.title | In Pursuit of Human Flourishing: A Study in Personal Violence and its Remedy, as Informed by Thomas Aquinas with Help from Aristotle and Proclus | |
| dc.title.alternative | In Pursuit of Human Flourishing | |
| dc.type | Thesis |