Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good

Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good

Author: Denis J. M. Bradley

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0813209528

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Annotation. Against the background of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Bradley provides a detailed differentiation between Aristotle's and Aquinas's view on moral principles and the end of man.


Aquinas on Friendship

Aquinas on Friendship

Author: Daniel Schwartz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0199205396

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Daniel Schwartz presents and examines the thoughts of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas on the subject of friendship - the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Using examples from the world of human relationships and politics and highlighting the contemporary relevance of texts that are not readily available to scholars, Schwartz facilitates access to the ideas of this great thinker.


Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Tobias Hoffmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1107002672

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This book discusses Aquinas's reception of Aristotle's work, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle's ethics.


The Thomist Tradition

The Thomist Tradition

Author: Brian J. Shanley

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9401599165

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This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of the central topics in the contemporary philosophy of religion from a Thomist point of view. It focuses on central themes, including religious knowledge, language, science, evil, morality, human nature, God and religious diversity. It should prove valuable to students and faculty in philosophy of religion and theology, who are looking for an introduction to the Thomist tradition.


Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre

Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre

Author: Christopher Stephen Lutz

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780739141489

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"Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents an intellectual history history and defense of this towering figure in contemporary American philosophy. Drawing on interviews and published works, Christopher Stephen Lutz traces MacIntyre's philosophical development and refutes the criticisms of the major thinkers - including Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Nagel - who have most vocally attacked him. Lutz convincingly demonstrates how MacIntyre's neo-Aristotelian ethical thought provides an essential corrective to the contemporary discussions of relativism and ideology, while successfully drawing on the objectivity of Thomistic natural law."--(4ème de couverture).


Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics

Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics

Author: J.C. Doig

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9401597715

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Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas's moral philosophy? Professor Doig answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within which the Sententia was composed. In Chapters 1-2, the work's role as a corrective of earlier commentaries is established. Chapter 3, by examining philosophy at Paris between 1215 and 1283, reveals that the proposal by Aquinas of a moral philosophy would have been unexceptional. Chapter 4's investigation of the principles underlying the moral theory of the Sententia makes apparent that they were regarded by Aquinas as both philosophical and Aristotelian. The date to be assigned the composition of the Sententia is studied in Chapter 5, and the conclusion is drawn, that with some probability, the Sententia is its author's final proposal of moral doctrines. The closing Chapter offers a summary of that moral philosophy against the historical background brought out earlier.


Aquinas on Virtue

Aquinas on Virtue

Author: Nicholas Austin, SJ

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1626164746

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Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274). Taking as its starting point Aquinas's neglected definition of virtue in terms of its "causes," this book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life. Drawing on connections and contrasts between Aquinas and contemporary treatments of virtue, Austin argues that Aquinas’s causal virtue theory retains its normative power today. As well as providing a synoptic account of Aquinas on virtue, the book includes an extended treatment of the cardinal virtue of temperance, an argument for the superiority of Aquinas's concept of "habit" over modern psychological accounts, and a rethinking of the relation between grace and virtue. With an approach that is distinctively theological yet strongly conversant with philosophy, this study will offer specialists a bold new interpretation of Aquinas’s virtue theory while giving students a systematic introduction with suggested readings from his Summa Theologiae and On the Virtues.


The Theology of Fear in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

The Theology of Fear in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

Author: Nathan Luis Cartagena

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-05-23

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1666953822

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The Theology of Fear in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae excavates and explores Thomas Aquinas’s comparatively expansive theology of fear that he develops in the Summa theologiae. Whereas many classify fear under a single category (e.g., an emotion, passion, or sentiment), Thomas specifies seven major categories of fear, including the passion and gift of fear. And while many classify courage as the lone virtue indexed to fear, Thomas argues that courage and perseverance perfect it, adding that a Spirit-empowered gift of courage also perfects human fears so that human beings may attain and remain in blessedness. A work in retrieval theology designed for Thomas and non-Thomas scholars operating within the interactions of theology and psychology, this book argues that understanding this theology’s motivations, internal coherence, and merits is necessary for understanding Thomas’s instruction for beginners in the Christian religion and its ongoing relevance for today.


Aquinas's Summa

Aquinas's Summa

Author: Jean-Pierre Torrell

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0813213983

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In this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell brings his expertise to bear on Aquinas's Summa Theologiae.


Paradise Understood

Paradise Understood

Author: T. Ryan Byerly

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0198794304

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A collection of seventeen philosophical essays that systematically investigate heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions.