Mary. M KeysAquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good
Mary M. Keys is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She has received fellowships from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Martin Marty Center for Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago, and the George Strake Foundation, among others. Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Political Science and History of Political Thought.
Part I. Virtue, Law and the Problem of the Common Good: 1. Why Aquinas?
Reconsidering and receiving the common good; 2. Contemporary responses to
the problem of the common good: three Anglo-American theories; Part II.
Aquinas's Social and Civic Foundations: 3. Unearthing and appropriating
Aristotle's foundations: from three Anglo-American theorists back to Thomas
Aquinas; 4. Reinforcing the foundations: Aquinas on the problem of
political virtue and regime-centered political science; 5. Finishing the
foundations and beginning to build: Aquinas on human action and excellence
as social, civic, and religious; Part III. Moral Virtues at the Nexus of
Personal and Common Goods: 6. Remodeling the moral edifice (I): Aquinas and
Aristotelian magnanimity; 7. Remodeling the moral edifice (II): Aquinas and
Aristotelian legal justice; Part IV. Politics, Human Law, and
Transpolitical Virtue: 8. Aquinas's two pedagogies: human law and the good
of moral virtue; 9. Theological virtue and Thomisitic political theory.
