Subordinated Ethics. Caitlin Smith Gilson
VERITAS
Series Introduction
“. . . the truth will set you free” (John 8:32)
In much contemporary discourse, Pilate’s question has been taken to mark the absolute boundary of human thought. Beyond this boundary, it is often suggested, is an intellectual hinterland into which we must not venture. This terrain is an agnosticism of thought: because truth cannot be possessed, it must not be spoken. Thus, it is argued that the defenders of “truth” in our day are often traffickers in ideology, merchants of counterfeits, or anti-liberal. They are, because it is somewhat taken for granted that Nietzsche’s word is final: truth is the domain of tyranny.
Is this indeed the case, or might another vision of truth offer itself? The ancient Greeks named the love of wisdom as philia, or friendship. The one who would become wise, they argued, would be a “friend of truth.” For both philosophy and theology might be conceived as schools in the friendship of truth, as a kind of relation. For like friendship, truth is as much discovered as it is made. If truth is then so elusive, if its domain is terra incognita, perhaps this is because it arrives to us—unannounced—as gift, as a person, and not some thing.
The aim of the Veritas book series is to publish incisive and original current scholarly work that inhabits “the between” and “the beyond” of theology and philosophy. These volumes will all share a common aspiration to transcend the institutional divorce in which these two disciplines often find themselves, and to engage questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians in such a way as to reinvigorate both disciplines with a kind of interdisciplinary desire, often so absent in contemporary academe. In a word, these volumes represent collective efforts in the befriending of truth, doing so beyond the simulacra of pretend tolerance, the violent, yet insipid reasoning of liberalism that asks with Pilate, “What is truth?”—expecting a consensus of non-commitment; one that encourages the commodification of the mind, now sedated by the civil service of career, ministered by the frightened patrons of position.
The series will therefore consist of two “wings”: (1) original monographs; and (2) essay collections on a range of topics in theology and philosophy. The latter will principally be the products of the annual conferences of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy (www.theologyphilosophycentre
.co.uk).
Conor Cunningham and Eric Austin Lee, Series editors
Not available from Cascade
| Deane-Peter Baker | Tayloring Reformed Epistemology: The Challenge to Christian Belief. Volume 1 |
| P. Candler & C. Cunningham (eds.) | Belief and Metaphysics. Volume 2 |
| Marcus Pound | Theology, Psychoanalysis, and Trauma. Volume 4 |
| Espen Dahl | Phenomenology and the Holy. Volume 5 |
| C. Cunningham et al. (eds.) | Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition, and Universalism. Volume 6 |
| A. Pabst & A. Paddison (eds.) | The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth: Christ, Scripture, and the Church. Volume 7 |
| J. P. Moreland | Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism. Volume 8 |
Available from Cascade Books1
| [Nathan Kerr | Christ, History, and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission. Volume 3]1 |
| Anthony D. Baker | Diagonal Advance: Perfection in Christian Theology. Volume 9 |
| D. C. Schindler | The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns. Volume 10 |
| Rustin Brian | Covering Up Luther: How Barth’s Christology Challenged the Deus Absconditus that Haunts Modernity. Volume 11 |
| Timothy Stanley | Protestant Metaphysics After Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger. Volume 12 |
| Christopher Ben Simpson | The Truth Is the Way: Kierkegaard’s Theologia Viatorum. Volume 13 |
| Richard H. Bell | Wagner’s Parsifal: An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey. Volume 14 |
| Antonio Lopez | Gift and the Unity of Being. Volume 15 |
| Toyohiko Kagawa | Cosmic Purpose. Translated and introduced by Thomas John Hastings. Volume 16 |
| Nigel Zimmerman | Facing the Other: John Paul II, Levinas, and the Body. Volume 17 |
| Conor Sweeney | Sacramental Presence after Heidegger: Onto-theology, Sacraments, and the Mother’s Smile. Volume 18 |
| John Behr et al. (eds.) | The Role of Death in Life: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relation between Life and Death. Volume 19 |
| Eric Austin Lee et al. (eds.) | The Resounding Soul: Reflection on the Metaphysics and Vivacity of the Human Person. Volume 20 |
| Orion Edgar | Things Seen and Unseen: The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty’s Metaphysics of Flesh. Volume 21 |
| Duncan B. Reyburn | Seeing Things as They Are: G. K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning. Volume 22 |
| Lyndon Shakespeare | Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management. Volume 23 |
| Michael V. Di Fuccia | Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology. Volume 24 |
| John McNerney | Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face. Volume 25 |
| Norm Klassen | The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision: Chaucer on Overcoming Tyranny and Becoming Ourselves. Volume 26 |
| Donald Wallenfang | Human and Divine Being: A Study of the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein. Volume 27 |
| Sotiris Mitralexis | Ever-Moving Repose: A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor’s Theory of Time. Volume 24 |
| Sotiris Mitralexis et al. (eds.) | Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher. Volume 28 |
| Kevin Corrigan | Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition. Volume 29 |
| Andrew Brower Latz | The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose. Volume 30 |
| D. C. Schindler | Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. Volume 31 |
| Stephen Kampowski | Embracing Our Finitude: Exercises in a Christian Anthropology between Dependence and Gratitude. Volume 32 |
| William Desmond | The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being: On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious. Volume 33 |
| Charles Péguy | Notes on Bergson and Descartes. Volume 34 |
| David Alcalde | Cosmology without God: The Problematic Theology Inherent in Modern Cosmology. Volume 35 |
| Benson P.Fraser | Hide and Seek: The Sacred Art of Indirect CommunicationVolume 36 |
| Philip JohnPaul Gonzales | Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O’Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity. Volume 37 |
| Caitlin Smith Gilson | Subordinated Ethics: Natural Law and Moral Miscellany in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky. Volume 38 |
1. Note: Nathan Kerr, Christ, History, and Apocalyptic, although volume 3 of the original SCM Veritas series is available from Cascade as part of the Theopolitical Visions series.
Subordinated Ethics
Natural Law and Moral Miscellany
in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky
Caitlin Smith Gilson
Foreword by Eric Austin Lee
SUBORDINATED ETHICS
Natural Law and Moral Miscellany in Aquinas and Dostoyevsky
Veritas 38
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