He contends that their shortcomings are endemic to modern economics, which Muller calls post-scholastic economics, and can be repaired by reverting to the writings of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.
It's sometimes credited to St. Thomas Aquinas, and it's this idea that an act that—that can cause harm, but if your intention is to do good, then that's ethical.
Just consider the centrality of the disputation in scholastic culture, a live debating format that was imitated in such texts as Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
Step into the rose-coloured light of the Church of the Jacobins and gaze up at the incredible vaulted palm that rises over the final resting place of Thomas Aquinas.
Christian theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas, have admired and adopted its focus on the virtues, and there are parallels between Stoic Ataraxia, or tranquility of mind, and the Buddhist concept of Nirvana.