Aquinas on Virtue

Aquinas on Virtue
Author: Nicholas Austin
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1626164738

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Aquinas on Virtue 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. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.

Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues

Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues
Author: Angela McKay Knobel
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268201080

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This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace. Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas’s theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related. Part 1 examines Aquinas’s own explicit remarks about the infused and acquired virtues and considers whether and to what extent a coherent “theory” of the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues can be found in Aquinas. Knobel argues that while Aquinas says almost nothing about how the infused and acquired virtues are related, he clearly does believe that the “structure” of the infused virtues mirrors that of the acquired in important ways. Part 2 uses that structure to evaluate existing interpretations of Aquinas and argues that no existing account adequately captures Aquinas’s most fundamental commitments. Knobel ultimately argues that the correct account lies somewhere between the two most commonly advocated theories. Written primarily for students and scholars of moral philosophy and theology, the book will also appeal to readers interested in understanding Aquinas’s theory of virtue.

The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics

The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics
Author: Andrew Pinsent
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136479147

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Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key to understanding Aquinas’s approach is to be found in an association between: a) attributes he appends to the virtues, and b) interpersonal capacities investigated by the science of social cognition, especially in the context of autistic spectrum disorder. The book uses this research to argue that Aquinas’s approach to the virtues is radically non-Aristotelian and founded on the concept of second-person relatedness. To demonstrate the explanatory power of this principle, Pinsent shows how the second-person perspective gives interpretation to Aquinas’s descriptions of the virtues and offers a key to long-standing problems, such as the reconciliation of magnanimity and humility. The principle of second-person relatedness also interprets acts that Aquinas describes as the fruition of the virtues. Pinsent concludes by considering how this approach may shape future developments in virtue ethics.

Treatise on the Virtues

Treatise on the Virtues
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0268158037

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In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough and incisive accounts of virtue in the history of Christian philosophy. John Oesterle's accurate and elegant translation makes this enduring work readily accessible to the modern reader.

Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics

Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics
Author: J. Budziszewski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107165784

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This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.

Justice as a Virtue

Justice as a Virtue
Author: Porter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0802873251

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"Aquinas," says Jean Porter, "gets justice right." In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions. For Aquinas, justice is more about interpersonal morality than civic or social obligations, and Porter masterfully draws out the contemporary significance of Aquinas's perspective. - back of book.

Virtue and Grace in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

Virtue and Grace in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Author: Justin M. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108485189

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Explores how Aquinas's understanding of virtue developed as his consideration of sin, grace, and God's action in human life deepened.

Mencius and Aquinas

Mencius and Aquinas
Author: Lee H. Yearley
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791404317

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Offers a detailed comparative analysis of two thinkers from different traditions.

Ethics as a Work of Charity

Ethics as a Work of Charity
Author: David Decosimo
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781503600607

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Most of us wonder how to make sense of the apparent moral excellences or virtues of those who have different visions of the good life or different religious commitments than our own. Rather than flattening or ignoring the deep difference between various visions of the good life, as is so often done, this book turns to the medieval Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas to find a better way. Thomas, it argues, shows us how to welcome the outsider and her virtue as an expression rather than a betrayal of one's own distinctive vision. It shows how Thomas, driven by a Christian commitment to charity and especially informed by Augustine, synthesized Augustinian and Aristotelian elements to construct an ethics that does justice—in love—to insiders and outsiders alike. Decosimo offers the first analysis of Thomas on pagan virtue and a reinterpretation of Thomas's ethics while providing a model for our own efforts to articulate a truthful hospitality and do ethics in our pluralist, globalized world.

Disputed Questions on Virtue

Disputed Questions on Virtue
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2012-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1603844449

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The third volume of The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text.