Matthew Shea
Biographic Data
| ID | 6558977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Shea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Shea |
| SIGNATURE | SHEA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franciscan University of Steubenville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2984-439X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bioethics as an emerging moral tradition and some implications for adversarial cooperation
The Value of Life
The value of human life has a central importance in bioethics and in the Thomistic natural law tradition, but its meaning is often ambiguous. It can refer to the value of human life itself, the value of a person’s life, or the value of the person whose life it is. These are different kinds of value, but they are often overlooked or conflated in the literature. This article aims to clarify and develop natural law ethics by analyzing two goods asso…
Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism
Perfectionism is the view that what is intrinsically good is the fulfillment of human nature or the development and exercise of the characteristic human capacities. An important objection to the theory is what Gwen Bradford calls the “Deep Problem”: explaining why nature-fulfillment is good. We argue that situating perfectionism within a Thomistic metaethical framework and adopting Aquinas's account of the metaphysical “convertibility” of being a…
God, evil, and occasionalism
In a recent paper, Alvin Plantinga defends occasionalism against an important moral objection: if God is the sole direct cause of all the suffering that results from immoral human choices, this causal role is difficult to reconcile with God's perfect goodness. Plantinga argues that this problem is no worse for occasionalism than for any of the competing views of divine causality; in particular, there is no morally relevant difference between God …
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God, evil, and occasionalism
In a recent paper, Alvin Plantinga defends occasionalism against an important moral objection: if God is the sole direct cause of all the suffering that results from immoral human choices, this causal role is difficult to reconcile with God's perfect goodness. Plantinga argues that this problem is no worse for occasionalism than for any of the competing views of divine causality; in particular, there is no morally relevant difference between God …
Value Comparability in Natural Law Ethics
A Thomistic Solution to the Deep Problem for Perfectionism
Perfectionism is the view that what is intrinsically good is the fulfillment of human nature or the development and exercise of the characteristic human capacities. An important objection to the theory is what Gwen Bradford calls the “Deep Problem”: explaining why nature-fulfillment is good. We argue that situating perfectionism within a Thomistic metaethical framework and adopting Aquinas's account of the metaphysical “convertibility” of being a…
Bioethics as an emerging moral tradition and some implications for adversarial cooperation
The Value of Life
The value of human life has a central importance in bioethics and in the Thomistic natural law tradition, but its meaning is often ambiguous. It can refer to the value of human life itself, the value of a person’s life, or the value of the person whose life it is. These are different kinds of value, but they are often overlooked or conflated in the literature. This article aims to clarify and develop natural law ethics by analyzing two goods asso…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (3 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Natural (archaeology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)