Happiness as the constitutive principle of action in Thomas Aquinas

Philosophical Explorations 22 (2):208-221 (2019)
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Constitutivism locates the ground of practical normativity in features constitutive of rational agency and rests on the concept of a constitutive norm – a norm that is internal to a thing such that...

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Action.George Wilson - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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