Aquinas And The Nicomachean Ethics

Author : Tobias Hoffmann,Jörn Müller,Matthias Perkams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107276406

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Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics by Tobias Hoffmann,Jörn Müller,Matthias Perkams Pdf

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : St. Augustine's Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015051885542

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Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Each volume has the full text of Aristotle with Bekker numbers, followed by the commentary of St. Thomas, cross-referenced using an easily accessible mode of referring to Aristotle in the Commentary. Each volume is beautifully printed and bound using the finest materials. All copies are printed on acid-free paper and Smyth sewn. They will last.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Andrew Pinsent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136479144

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The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics by Andrew Pinsent Pdf

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.

Author : Ignatius Theodore Eschmann,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0888447205

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The Ethics of Saint Thomas Aquinas by Ignatius Theodore Eschmann,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Pdf

Author : Harry V. Jaffa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:56274355

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Thomism and Aristotelianism: a study of the commentary by Thomas Aquinas on the Nicomachean ethics by Harry V. Jaffa Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153978438X

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men should best live. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle described how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, had turned philosophy to human questions, whereas Pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. Ethics, as now separated out for discussion by Aristotle, is practical rather than theoretical, in the original Aristotelian senses of these terms. In other words, it is not only a contemplation about good living, because it also aims to create good living. It is therefore connected to Aristotle's other practical work, the Politics, which similarly aims at people becoming good. Ethics is about how individuals should best live, while the study of politics is from the perspective of a law-giver, looking at the good of a whole community.

Author : Mary M. Keys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139460765

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Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good by Mary M. Keys Pdf

Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good, first published in 2006, claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas's normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining the relationship between personal and common goods, and the relation of virtue and law to both, Mary M. Keys shows why Aquinas should be read in addition to Aristotle on these perennial questions. She focuses on Aquinas's Commentaries as mediating statements between Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics and Aquinas's own Summa Theologiae, showing how this serves as the missing link for grasping Aquinas's understanding of Aristotle's thought. Keys argues provocatively that Aquinas's Christian faith opens up new panoramas and possibilities for philosophical inquiry and insights into ethics and politics. Her book shows how religious faith can assist sound philosophical inquiry into the foundation and proper purposes of society and politics.

Author : Harry V. Jaffa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:15174002

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Thomism and Aristotelianism by Harry V. Jaffa Pdf

Author : Kevin L. Flannery
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813209889

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Acts Amid Precepts by Kevin L. Flannery Pdf

"Although most natural law ethical theories recognize moral absolutes, there is not much agreement even among natural law theorists about how to identify them. The author argues that in order to understand and determine the morality (or immorality) of a human action, it must be considered in relation to the organized system of human practices within which it is performed. Such an approach, he argues, is to be found in the natural law theory of Thomas Aquinas, especially once it is recognized that the logical structure of Aquinas's ethical theory is basically that of an Aristotelian science." "The book will be useful to students and scholars interested in ethics, especially from an Aristotelian and/or Thomistic perspective. One appendix reproduces the Leonine text of the De malo (question 6), with facing English translation. Another appendix provides facing Latin text and English translation of the Summa Theologiae I-II (question 94, article 2)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Denis J. M. Bradley
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813209524

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Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good by Denis J. M. Bradley Pdf

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.

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107165786

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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics by J. Budziszewski Pdf

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

Author : Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung,Colleen McCluskey,Christina van Dyke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015080858601

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Aquinas's Ethics by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung,Colleen McCluskey,Christina van Dyke Pdf

This work places Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context in a way that makes Aquinas accessible to students and interested general readers.

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405153140

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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Richard Kraut Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethicsilluminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics andstudents new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays bydistinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of theNichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, thedistinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness,self-control, and pleasure.

Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664226035

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Recovery of Virtue by Jean Porter Pdf

By developing a philosophical reconstruction of the moral philosophy that underlies the Secunda Pars of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, Jean Porter illuminates Aquinas' theory of morality and shows its relevance to contemporary Christian ethics.