Jean Porter

Enjoy this memoir of my happy days, growing up in Toronto and Leaside. I paint a picture of Toronto's exciting events, like the Santa Clause parade, Marilyn Bell's swim, Barbara Anne Scott's skating career, Hockey and Tonight in Canada and the Juliette Show. Lunch at the Arcadian Court, and the Georgian Room. Toronto's first subway, Northlea Public School and Northern Secondary. A special sorority and Majorette groups. My memorable visit with Helen Keller at the C.N.I.B. i hope you enjoy my stories of good memories.

Enjoy this memoir of my happy days, growing up in Toronto and Leaside. I paint a picture of Toronto's exciting events, like the Santa Clause parade, Marilyn Bell's swim, Barbara Anne Scott's skating career, Hockey and Tonight in Canada and the Juliette Show. Lunch at the Arcadian Court, and the Georgian Room. Toronto's first subway, Northlea Public School and Northern Secondary. A special sorority and Majorette groups. My memorable visit with Helen Keller at the C.N.I.B. i hope you enjoy my stories of good memories.

Explores Aquinas's concept of justice - and why it matters today."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 complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas's views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated.

Jean Porter is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her other books include Natural and Divine Law and Nature as Reason.

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 approach to the natural law still has much to contribute to the contemporary discussion of Christian ethics. Aquinas and his interlocutors provide a way of thinking about the natural law that is distinctively theological while at the same time remaining open to other intellectual perspectives, including those of science. In the course of her work, Porter examines the scholastics' assumptions and beliefs about nature, Aquinas's account of happiness, and the overarching claim that reason can generate moral norms. Ultimately, Porter argues that a Thomistic theory of the natural law is well suited to provide a starting point for developing a more nuanced account of the relationship between specific beliefs and practices.While Aquinas's approach to the natural law may not provide a system of ethical norms that is both universally compelling and detailed enough to be practical, it does offer something that is arguably more valuable - namely, a way of reflecting theologically on the phenomenon of human morality.

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 period, Porter's work explores several important scholastic theologians and canonists whose writings are not only worthy of study in their own right but also make important contributions to moral reflection today.

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary Christian ethics.