Bourke, Vernon J. Ethics: A Textbook in Moral Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1951.
Vernon J. Bourke of Saint Louis University did his doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Toronto. His unpublished doctoral dissertation is a study of Thomas Aquinas' thought about habits. His textbook in moral philosophy, which was widely used in Catholic colleges and universities in the United States, is based on Aquinas' thought.
Bourke, Vernon J. History of Ethics. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968.
Bradshaw, John. Reclaiming Virtue: How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason. New York: Bantam Books, 2009.
As a young seminarian studying for the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church, John Bradshaw (born 1933) studied Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Burrow, Rufus, Jr. Personalism: A Critical Introduction. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1999.
For all of us who have grown up in the Age of the Anti-Hero in serious literature, all forms of personalist philosophy are best understood as calling us to live heroic lives of personal virtue that we cultivate through our deliberate choices.
Burrow, Rufus, Jr. God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Even though Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), was assassinated at a comparatively young age, he lived an heroic life in pursuit of virtue. No, he was not perfect. But how many of us are perfect?
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 3rd ed. Collected Works of Joseph Campbell. Novato, California: New World Library, 2008.
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