Works by James Keenan
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- A history of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century: from confessing sins to liberating consciences.James F. Keenan -2010 - New York: Continuum.Background -- The moral manualists -- Initiating reform : Odon Lottin -- Retrieving Scripture and charity : Fritz Tillman and Gérard Gilleman -- Synthesis : Bernard Häring -- The neo-manualists -- New foundations for moral reasoning, 1970-89 -- New foundations for a theological anthropology, 1980-2000 -- Toward a global discourse on suffering and solidarity -- Afterword: The encyclicals of Pope Benedict XVI.
- Choosing to Feel. Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends.Diana Fritz Cates,Pamela M. Hall,G. Simon Harak,James F. Keenan,Daniel Mark Nelson &Paul J. Waddell -1997 -Journal of Religious Ethics 26 (1):189-215.We are currently seeing a revival of interest in Aquinas's moral thought among Christian ethicists, both Protestant and Catholic. Although recent studies of his moral thought have touched on a number of topics, the majority of these have focused on his account of the virtues and their place in the Christian life. Probing the questions of the relation of virtue and law, the role of reason and will, and the place of the passions in Aquinas's moral theology, I will examine (...) recent studies by Diana Cates, Pamela Hall, Simon Harak, James Keenan, Daniel Nelson, Daniel Westberg, and Paul Waddell. In different ways these studies return us repeatedly to the vexed and unresolved question of the scope of human freedom. (shrink)
- “Whose Perfection is it Anyway?”: A Virtuous Consideration of Enhancement 1.James F. Keenan -1999 -Christian Bioethics 5 (2):104-120.Discussions of genetic enhancements often imply deep suspicions about human desires to manipulate or enhance the course of our future. These unspoken assumptions about the arrogance of the quest for perfection are at odds with the normally hopeful resonancy we find in contemporary theology. The author argues that these fears, suspicions and accusations are misplaced. The problem lies not with the question of whether we should pursue perfection, but rather what perfection we are pursuing. The author argues that perfection, properly (...) understood, has an enormously positive function in the Roman Catholic tradition. The author examines three sources: the Scriptures, the scholastic tradition, and ascetical theology. He examines contemporary criticisms of perfectionism and suggests that an adequate virtue theory keeps us from engaging perfectionism as such. The author then shows how a positive, responsible view of perfection is an asset to our discussion on enhancement technology. (shrink)
- The virtue of prudence.James Keenan -2002 - In Stephen J. Pope,The Ethics of Aquinas. Georgetown University Press.No categories
- Vulnerable to Contingency.James F. Keenan -2020 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40 (2):221-236.Over the past forty years, the administrations of American colleges and universities have developed and expanded the ranks of contingent faculty as an alternative to the tenure line. While acknowledging the gross inequities that divide these two tracks, this essay attempts to awaken tenure-line ethicists through the concept of recognition to the conditions of their colleagues and then argues through the concept of vulnerability that faculty are deeply and unavoidably related, and concludes that through solidarity ethicists from both lines might (...) work together toward the university becoming a more ethical workplace than it presently is. (shrink)No categories
- Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology.Daniel J. Harrington &James F. Keenan -2002 - Sheed & Ward.Answering the call of the Second Vatican Council for moral theology to 'draw more fully on the teaching of Holy Scripture, ' the authors examine the virtues that both flow from Scripture and provide a lens by which to interpret Scripture.
- (1 other version)The Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious Issues.Courtney S. Campbell,Lauren A. Clark,David Loy,James F. Keenan,Kathleen Matthews,Terry Winograd &Laurie Zoloth -2007 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (2):229-239.A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent on machines to make their way in the everyday world. For certain privileged groups, computers, cell phones, PDAs, Blackberries, and IPODs, all permitting the faster processing of information, are commonplace. In these populations, even exercise can be automated as persons try to achieve good physical fitness by riding stationary bikes, running on treadmills, and working out on cross-trainers that send information about performance and heart rate.
- Distinguishing Charity as Goodness and Prudence as Rightness: A Key to Thomas’s Secunda Pars.James F. Keenan -1992 -The Thomist 56 (3):407-426.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:DISTINGUISHING CHARITY AS GOODNESS AND PRUDENCE AS RIGHTNESS: A KEY TO THOMAS'S SECUNDA PARS JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J. Weston School of Theology Cambridge, Massachusetts HE RESPECTIVE functions of charity and prudence Thomas Aquinas's moral theology provide a key to his nderstanding of the virtues. Charity and prudence serve distinct functions. In Thomas's position, a person can have the acquired virtues without having charity; such a person has a virtuous (...) life, but it is unified by prudence, not by charity. But why is such a person without charity? Is this absence of charity due simply to the absence of faith? Is this person with the four acquired virtues but without charity simply an unbeliever? Or is this person simply a rightly-ordered person whose lack of charity is due to the absence of personal moral goodness? Is such a person simply one who, in common parlance, is a well-integrated person but not necessarily a morally good one? In a word, is moral goodness a necessary condition for the acquired moral virtues? To answer this question we will begin with the contemporary distinction between goodness and rightness and then discuss the two virtues and their functions. In the final section we will relate our findings to present-day problems in the ethics of virtue. I. Goodness an_d Rightness Since Democritus we have realized that living rightly is not necessarily an indication of being good. Democritus noted that being good required not only that we act rightly but that we want 407 408 JAMES F. KEENAN, S.J. to act rightly.1 Over the centuries philosophers and theologians have consistently made reference to the fact that living rightly, or as they called it " doing the good," was not a sufficient condition for describing a person as good. From Ambrose and Augustine to the present, authors have insisted that a moral description of persons is more than a mere deduction from external activity.2 Some writers, however, did not simply make reference to this distinction, but rather spent considerable time in commenting on the insight involved. Kant, for instance, in his Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals distinguished from the beginning between action!> done out of duty (Handeln aus Pfiicht) and dutiful actions (pfiichtmiissiges H andeln). In attempting to describe the only thing which we can call " good," that is, the will, Kant argued that a dutiful act was only good if the act was done out of duty. For example, a state executioner who executes on account of his duty to execute is good and the action is good. But if the executioner performs the dutiful act on some other account, then the action is not good, though it is dutiful. Interestingly Kant did not consider whether an act not dutiful could be called good: Is an executioner who acts out of duty but botches the job still to be called good? George Moore in his Ethics made a similar point but for different reasons. Unlike Kant's interest in goodness, Moore wanted to describe a right action free of any consideration of an agent's motives and his solution was utilitarianism. In the process of separating the agent's action, Moore realized that the right act of a person with bad motivations involves a paradox: " A man may actually deserve the strongest moral condemnation for choosing an action which is morally right." 3 However, like 1 See his Fragmenta M oralia, no. 109, as cited in Stephen Toulmin, An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), 170. 2 Bruno Schuller of Miinster provides ample historical evidence in his Die Begrundung sittlicher Urteile (Diisseldorf: Patmos, 1980), 140. 3 George Moore, Ethics (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1912), 193-5. Cf. H. J. Paton, "The Alleged Independence of Goodness," in The Philosophy of G. E. Moore, ed. P. Schilpp (New York: Tudor, 1952), 113-134; Richard Hare, The Language of Morals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964). GOODNESS AND PRUDENCE AS RIGHTNESS 409 Kant, Moore did not discuss a person who sought to act rightly but who failed actually to perform a right action. Contemporary moral theology has carried the distinction further. Moral theologians like Bruno... (shrink)
- Vulnerability, Conscience, and Integrity.James Keenan -2024 -De Ethica 8 (1):10-24.This essay explores how vulnerability, understood not as precarity but as capacious responsiveness, much as the Philosopher Judith Butler identifies it, and recognition are key moral concepts that are prior conditions for the expression of conscience. Appreciating Thomas Aquinas' argument that conscience is neither a power or a habit, but rather an act, the essay argues that Aquinas' inclination synderesis, that prompts us to the good and away from evil, functions in a way similar to vulnerability. Fundamentally, vulnerability prompts us (...) to recognize the neighbor who needs our response. (shrink)No categories
- University ethics: how colleges can build and benefit from a culture of ethics.James F. Keenan -2015 - Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.The absence of ethics at American universities -- Ethics -- How the literature on the university is moving slowly but surely toward university ethics -- A first case for university ethics: the adjunct faculty -- The cultural landscape of the university without ethics -- Cheating -- Undergraduates behaving badly -- Gender -- Diversity and race -- Commodification -- A conclusion : class, athletics, and other university matters.
- Goodness and Rightness in Aquinas's Summa Theologiae.James F. Keenan -1994 -The Thomist 58:342-48.
- Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives.Mark A. Wilson,Julie Hanlon Rubio,Lisa Tessman,Mary M. Doyle Roche,James F. Keenan,Margaret Urban Walker,Jamie Schillinger,Jean Porter,Jennifer A. Herdt &Edmund N. Santurri (eds.) -2014 - Lanham: Lexington Books.Virtue and the Moral Life brings together distinguished philosophers and theologians with younger scholars of consummate promise to produce ten essays that engage both academics and students of ethics. This collection explores the role virtues play in identifying the good life and the good society.
- “Contraversations” Constructing Conflicts.Maria Aggestam &James Keenan -2007 -Business and Society 46 (4):429-456.Businesses and societies face increasingly complex problems. Collaborative relationships are needed to leverage the differences among participants and to balance stakeholder concerns. The article takes a discursive, constructionist approach in exploring the relations of five factions involved in resolving a town-gown conflict. The case data are narratives collected during a pivotal community-wide meeting in which the town-gown factions participated. The findings underscore the characteristics and roles of language in constructing and organizing meanings. In particular, the focal data reveal the influence (...) of “contraversation”—that is, dialectical and dialogical conversation particularly and publicly directed against one faction, in constructing antagonisms and thwarting collaboration. The focal findings added insight into the demographic and historical characteristics of the factions, the socially embedded understandings, and the role of conversations in developing discursive resources that create collective identities and translate them into integrating rather than disintegrating intergroup performance in facing problematic concerns. (shrink)No categories
- Anxiety, anxiety reduction, and stress in learning.James Deese,Richard S. Lazarus &James Keenan -1953 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 46 (1):55.
- Hacer teología y ética teológica frente a la crisis de los abusos.Daniel J. Fleming,James F. Keenan &Hans Zollner (eds.) -2024 - Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications. Translated by Lourdes Calduch Benages.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - The Language of Human Rights and Social Justice in the Face of HIV-AIDS.Jon D. Fuller &James F. Keenan -2004 -Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 8 (1 & 2):211-231.
- Letters, Notes, & Comments.G. Simon Harak,James F. Keenan &Jean Porter -1999 -Journal of Religious Ethics 27 (1):181 - 191.
- Developments in Bioethics from the Perspective of HIV/AIDS.James F. Keenan -2005 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (4):416-423.Predicting future trends in bioethics depends on the recognition of contemporary innovations. Because of the extraordinary challenges brought on by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, bioethics has had to undergo a critical examination of its own effectiveness. This essay examines 10 developments that have helped shape the future of bioethics in a time of HIV/AIDS.
- Andrew Monson, From the Ptolemies to the Romans.James G. Keenan -2014 -Klio 96 (2):719-723.No categories
- A history of Catholic theological ethics.James F. Keenan -2022 - Mahwah: Paulist Press.An introduction to Catholic theological ethics through the lens of its historical development from the beginning of the church until today.
- A Summons to Promote Professional Ethics in the Academy.James F. Keenan -2013 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 33 (1):169-184.In this essay I make a fundamental claim about and a recommendation for professional ethics: the lack of professional ethics in the academy is noteworthy and members of the Society of Christian Ethics ought to begin to address this reality as a matter of what is right and just for the SCE and for the academic professions at large—it is time to get our personal and corporate house in order.
- Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis.James F. Keenan -2006 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 26 (1):195-197.No categories
- Collaboration and cooperation in Catholic health care [Article originally presented as an address to the Australian Catholic Health Care Conference (1999: Melbourne).].James Keenan -2000 -The Australasian Catholic Record 77 (2):163.
- Cooperation and “Hard Cases”.James F. Keenan -1998 -Ethics and Medics 23 (9):3-3.No categories
- College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics: The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults; and Faith with Benefits: Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses. By Jason King.James F. Keenan -2019 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 39 (2):397-399.No categories
- Ethics of the Word: Voices in the Catholic Church Today.James F. Keenan -2010 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.The book covers topics ranging from difficult confrontations to apologies to the language of faith, hope, and love.
- Fayyum agriculture at the end of the Ayyubid era: Nabulsi's survey.James G. Keenan -1999 - In Keenan James G.,Agriculture in Egypt, From Pharaonic to Modern Times. pp. 287-299.Export citation Bookmark
- From Teaching Confessors to Guiding Lay People.James F. Keenan -2008 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 28 (2):141-157.TWENTIETH-CENTURY CATHOLIC MORAL THEOLOGIANS HAVE ABANDONED their long-standing primary task of being teachers of priests who need specific interpretations of the law to hear confessions properly. By 1965 they had become guardians of the personal consciences of lay people seeking to become disciples of Christ. This shift was occasioned by a sustained debate between manualists and revisionists in which they argued about the primary locus of moral theology, about the locus of moral truth, and about the objectivity of moral truth.No categories
- How scripture is to be performed in bioethics?James F. Keenan -2004 -Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 7 (3):345-346.
- John Mahoney, The Making of Moral Theology.James Keenan -2005 - In Gilbert Meilaender & William Werpehowski,The Oxford handbook of theological ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Moral wisdom: lessons and texts from the Catholic tradition.James F. Keenan -2017 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.Moral Wisdom introduces moral theory through a Catholic lens. Connecting the Catholic tradition to the realities of modern life, the third edition has been revised throughout to include new examples, the teachings of Pope Francis, new scholarship on the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus, and a new chapter on applying lessons to life.
- Openness, with Caution and Suspicion, About Human Enhancement.James Keenan -2017 - In Jason T. Eberl,Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Papyrology and Roman History: 1956-1980.James G. Keenan -1982 -Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 76 (1):23.
- Prophylactics, Toleration, and Cooperation.James F. Keenan -1989 -International Philosophical Quarterly 29 (2):205-220.
- Reply to Beckwith.James F. Keenan -1992 -International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (2):239-245.No categories
- Some effects of rhythmic distraction upon rhythmic sensori-motor performance.James J. Keenan -1968 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 77 (3p1):440.
- Social Trust and the Ethics of Our Institutions.James F. Keenan -2022 -Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 42 (2):245-263.Social trust is the basic resource for our institutions and is notably maintained by leaders who have what I call a vulnerable style and a vigilant capacity to recognize ethical challenges on the horizon. The essay follows five steps: a meditation on social trust, an introduction to the notion of style, and a proposal for a vulnerable style so as to become collectively capacious for recognition. Then it turns to the two institutions under examination at the 2022 annual meeting of (...) the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE): the church and the academy. The essay examines both the church on racial justice through exemplars of vulnerable style and the academy on needed recognition of the precarity of our community colleges. So as to advance an interest in diversifying our styles of communicating within the SCE, the essay provides a meditation, an academic account, an academic proposal, a narrative, and a case. (shrink)
- Taking Aim at the Principle of Double Effect.James F. Keenan -1988 -International Philosophical Quarterly 28 (2):201-205.
- The Casuistry of John Major.James F. Keenan -1993 -The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 13:205-221.No categories
- The Examined Life.James F. Keenan -1991 -International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (3):376-377.No categories
- The moral life: eight lectures.James F. Keenan -2023 - Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.Most foundational texts on theological ethics address the person or the society; the point of departure determines, inevitably, fairly different trajectories. By starting with the experience of grief, this book posits the human as ineluctably social: grief is an epiphany that reveals how the human is inseparable from the collective. Indeed, grief inevitably summons us to grieve socially. Nothing discloses the human more rawly than grief that "it is not good for the human to be alone." Keenan then develops an (...) ethics of vulnerability, following Judith Butler, understanding it not primarily as a compromised state of being but rather as that which establishes the human as capacious for recognizing and responding to others. Mutual recognition, a theme that can be found from Georg Hegel and Sigmund Freud to Axel Honneth, Nancy Frasier and Jessica Benjamin, emerges as the first moral act of the vulnerable human. In light of vulnerability and recognition, Keenan shows how we can now understand conscience as guiding the activity of one who has first vulnerably recognized others. The second half of the book works out a Christian ethics of vulnerability, starting with discipleship, then grace and sin, then the virtues, and finally the communion of saints, the works of mercy, and the beatitudes. (shrink)
- The Moral Sense.James F. Keenan -1995 -International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (4):502-505.No categories
- University Ethics: Why Colleges Need a Culture of Ethics.James F. Keenan -2015 - Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.From sex abuse scandals to the treatment of adjunct professors, universities are mired in thorny ethical questions. In this book, Keenan exposes the problems that arise from the lack of professional ethics in the college environment, then proposes concrete solutions for issues ranging from athletics and adjuncts to tuition and salaries.
- Virtue, Grace and the Early Revisionists of the Twentieth Century.James F. Keenan -2010 -Studies in Christian Ethics 23 (4):365-380.Roman Catholic theological ethics went through a period of enormous transition in the twentieth century, abandoning its classic textbooks, the so-called ‘moral manuals’, which were centered on sins derived from the Decalogue and developing a more integrated ‘revisionist’ moral theology that depended on both systematic and ascetical theology. In terms of grace and virtue, the former moved from its peripheral connection to the sacraments to becoming the very foundation of the moral life, while the latter went from being the subject (...) matter for yet another list of sins to the personal, embodied way of becoming a true disciple of Christ. (shrink)
- D. G. Martinez: P. Michigan XIX. Baptized for Our Sakes: a Leather Trisagion from Egypt (P.Mich. 799). (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 120.) Pp. 115, ills. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1999. Cased. ISBN: 3-519-07669-1. [REVIEW]James G. Keenan -2000 -The Classical Review 50 (2):634-635.
- Introduction to Christian Ethics. [REVIEW]James F. Keenan -1991 -Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 66 (4):416-417.
- The Priority of Prudence. [REVIEW]James F. Keenan -1994 -International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (3):387-389.No categories
- Verhoogt Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt. A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers. Pp. xiv + 237, pls. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Cased, €110, US$149. ISBN: 90-04-14226-6. [REVIEW]James G. Keenan -2006 -The Classical Review 56 (2):456-458.
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