Did Aquinas Justify the Transition from ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’? by Piotr Lichacz

• Main Author: Kaz Kukiela
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Étienne Gilson Society 2020-09-01
• Series: Studia Gilsoniana
• Subjects: aristotle; david hume; g. e. moore; piotr lichacz; thomas aquinas; naturalistic fallacy; normative; descriptive; is/ought; natural sciences; anthropology; ontology; teleology; ethics; human nature
• Online Access: http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-8056ff2e-1ec1-4544-807c-435afe3d593d?q=bwmeta1.element.cejsh-f9a36699-90c9-4b9f-bea2-d6631be4a97a;4&qt=CHILDREN-STATELESS
• ISSN: 2300-0066; 2577-0314

This paper is a review of the book: Piotr Lichacz, O.P., Did Aquinas Justify the Transition from ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’? (Warszawa: Instytut Tomistyczny, 2010). According to the author, Lichacz’s book provides a comprehensive analysis of Thomas Aquinas’s anthropological and teleological methodology of philosophy. Consequently, it develops a supervenient and normative characteristic of natural finality onto the description of the human being as discovered in the natural sciences.