Living the Good Life

"For those who are looking for help in navigating the troubled waters of our age, Professor Steven Jensen has provided a trustworthy map and compass. His 'Living the Good Life: A Beginner's Guide to Thomistic Ethics' is a most admirable and usable tool to help find the way to smooth waters and a friendly harbor. It is as easy and pleasant to read as a chapter of Jane Austen, and as patiently and carefully reasoned as a Euclidean proposition. Here is perennial wisdom brought to bear on the daily transactions of our lives."--Christopher O. Blum, Crisis Magazine "This small volume provides a brief, clear introduction to the ethical theory of Thomas Aquinas This will be a useful book for teachers and students of moral and political philosophy."--W.P. Haggerty, CHOICE "Jensen's book offers one of the clearest, comprehensive and most systematic expositions of Thomistic ethics aimed at helping the beginner to understand the essential features of Aquinas's account, and serving as a practical guide for moral conduct."--Jason T. Eberl, Theology "Living the Good Life is everything that an introductory philosophy text should be: lucid, incisive, engaging, and a pleasure to read. In just two hundred pages, Jensen manages to provide an overview of Thomistic ethics that is comprehensive without being overly technical, and useful to anyone wishing to think about contemporary moral issues with the mind of Thomas Aquinas... In sum, Living the Good Life is an excellent beginner's Thomistic ethics. It belongs on the shelf of every Thomist. There is every reason to believe that in time it will become the standard work on the subject for use at the undergraduate level."--Giuseppe Butera, Providence College, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly "In addressing contemporary issues with Thomistic ethics, Jensen shows the timelessness of the saint's perspective."--Brian Welter, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly "Jensen's book provides an overview of Thomas Aquinas's ethics that clearly and competently explicates Aquinas's complex system of ethical thought Jensen's work provides a good starting point for understanding Aquinas's ethics that will be accessible to undergraduate students."--Ann Crawford Vinski, Duquesne Univ, Religious Studies Review

Steven J. Jensen is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, USA and specialises in the areas of ethics and medieval philosophy. He is the author of Good and Evil Actions: A Journey through Saint Thomas Aquinas and editor of The Ethics of Organ Transplantation.