Books written by Richard J. Regan

Just War, Second Edition

Wasserstrom, Richard A., ed. War and Morality. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1970. Humanitarian Intervention Hehir, J. Bryan. “Intervention: From Theories to Cases.” Ethics and International Affairs 9 (1995): 1–13. Laberge, Pierre.
A Constitutional History of the U.S. Supreme Court

Adding much-needed historical and philosophical background to the discussion, Richard J. Regan reconsiders some of the most important Supreme Court cases regarding the establishment clause and the free exercise of religion.
The American Constitution and Religion

humanitarian motives for endorsing black suffrage. The Thirteenth Amendment freeing the slaves was ratified by the requisite twenty-third state on December 6, 1865, and certified by the secretary of state on December 18.
A Summary of Philosophy

And so we properly and intrinsically distinguish animals by whether they are rational or irrational , and not by whether they are black or white , which are characteristics altogether outside the nature of animals .
Treatise on Law

Thanks are also due to William P. Baumgarth , Francis P. Canavan , W. Norris Clarke , Brian Davies , and Louis B. Pascoe ( all of Fordham University ) for their advice . NOTE On The Text The translation is from the 1952 ix Preface.
Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

The first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas unfinished commentary on Aristotle's Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and moreover reproduces in English those passages of William of ...
A Philosophical Primer on the Summa Theologica

Intended for an educated general audience and philosophical neophytes, A Philosophical Primer on the Summa Theologica will help readers become better acquainted with Aquinas' thought, summarily expressing his positions and arguments largely ...
Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

Offering the first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas' unfinished commentary on Aristotle's Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and reproduces in English those passages of William of ...
Private Conscience and Public Law: The American Experience

Private Conscience and Public Law: The American Experience
Just War: Principles and Cases

Most individuals realize that we have a moral obligation to avoid the evils of war. But this realization raises a host of difficult questions when we witness harrowing injustices such...
A Summary of Philosophy

The first way focuses on the observed locomotion and alterations that happen to material things. ... nothing to cause the intrinsically contingent things to come to be. If the argument is so interpreted, it can be summarized as follows.
The Power of God: By Thomas Aquinas

And so what proceeds in God by the act of his intellect knowing himself proceeds in reality, and what proceeds by the act of his will loving himself also does. And because the Son proceeds as the Word by an act of the divine intellect ...
On Law, Morality, and Politics (Second Edition)

The second edition retains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J Regan -- including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett, 2000).
The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance

This newly translated and streamlined compilation of the texts on prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance from the Summa Theologica II-II follows the question-and-answer format of the original while omitting almost all appeals to ...
Just War: Principles and Cases

And, if so, for what purpose? In this book, Richard J. Regan confronts these controversial questions by first considering the basic principles of just-war theory and then applying those principles to historical and ongoing conflicts.