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Some notes on McInerny’s Ethica Thomistica

By Anton Elloway on Sunday, February 15, 2026

McInerny, R. (1997) Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Revised edition. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. Chapter 1: Morality and Human Life 1. Human Action and Moral Appraisal Human actions are moral actions. A human act is one that is conscious, deliberate, and free, and therefore something for which the …

The good-enough university

By Anton Elloway on Thursday, February 5, 2026

Donald Woods Winnicot. Cropped from A dinner to celebrate Melanie Klein's 70th birthday, at Kettner's, London. W.1, 1952.

Today there is almost constant talk in universities of excellence: excellence of institutions, of staff, and even of students. A quick search of the University of Edinburgh website yields teaching and research excellence (including the Research Excellence Framework), academic excellence, Exemplars of Excellence in Student Education, VLE Excellence, Tercentenary Awards for Excellence, the Centre for …

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Some notes on McInerny’s Ethica Thomistica

The good-enough university

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