
Every hard moral question. Reasoned from first principles.
Is suicide ever justified? When is a lie wrong? What is marriage actually for? When may an unjust law be disobeyed? Fagothey does not duck.
Every chapter follows the same method, state the problem, lay out the schools of thought, weigh the arguments, resolve the question in the light of reason.
Used in Jesuit and Catholic universities for decades.
Fr. Austin Fagothey, S.J. taught philosophy at the University of Santa
Clara for a working lifetime. Right and Reason — first published in 1953— became one of the most widely adopted Catholic ethics textbooks of the twentieth century, used across the Jesuit university system in the United States.
Aristotle wrote it. Aquinas refined it. Fagothey taught it. You can carry it.
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