Aquinas S Ethics

Author : Stephen J. Pope
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0878408886

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The Ethics of Aquinas by Stephen J. Pope Pdf

In this comprehensive anthology, twenty-seven outstanding scholars from North America and Europe address every major aspect of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of morality and comment on his remarkable legacy. While there has been a revival of interest in recent years in the ethics of St. Thomas, no single work has yet fully examined the basic moral arguments and content of Aquinas' major moral work, the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae. This work fills that lacuna. The first chapters of The Ethics of Aquinas introduce readers to the sources, methods, and major themes of Aquinas's ethics. The second part of the book provides an extended discussion of ideas in the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae, in which contributors present cogent interpretations of the structure, major arguments, and themes of each of the treatises. The third and final part examines aspects of Thomistic ethics in the twentieth century and beyond. These essays reflect a diverse group of scholars representing a variety of intellectual perspectives. Contributors span numerous fields of study, including intellectual history, medieval studies, moral philosophy, religious ethics, and moral theology. This remarkable variety underscores how interpretations of Thomas's ethics continue to develop and evolve-and stimulate fervent discussion within the academy and the church. This volume is aimed at scholars, students, clergy, and all those who continue to find Aquinas a rich source of moral insight.

Author : Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung,Colleen McCluskey,Christina van Dyke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Andrew Pinsent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Thomas M. Osborne Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108586832

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Aquinas's Ethics by Thomas M. Osborne Jr Pdf

This Element provides an account of Thomas Aquinas's moral philosophy that emphasizes the intrinsic connection between happiness and the human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason. Human beings by nature have an end to which they are directed and concerning which they do not deliberate, namely happiness. Humans achieve this end by performing good human acts, which are produced by the intellect and the will, and perfected by the relevant virtues. These virtuous acts require that the agent grasps the relevant moral principles and uses them in particular cases.

Author : John Bowlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521620198

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Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics by John Bowlin Pdf

In this study John Bowlin argues that Aquinas's moral theology receives much of its character and content from an assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult to know and to will, in particular because of contingencies of various kinds - within ourselves, in the ends and objects we pursue, and in the circumstances of choice. Since contingencies are fortune's effects, Aquinas insists that it is fortune that makes good choice difficult. Bowlin then explicates Aquinas's treatment of a number of topics in light of this difficulty: the moral and theological virtues, the first precepts of the natural law, the voluntariness of virtuous action, and the happiness available to us in this life. By noting that Aquinas proceeds with an eye on fortune's threats to virtue, agency, and happiness, Bowlin places him more precisely in the history of ethics, among Aristotle, Augustine, and the Stoics.

Author : Ignatius Theodore Eschmann,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Kevin L. Flannery
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606083697

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The Primacy of Love by Paul J. Wadell Pdf

Thomas Aquinas was a man with a strategy -- not a strategy to assist us in good decision-making or a strategy to help us resolve our problems of conscience, but a strategy to work toward our personal transformation in light of God's love for us. Aquinas has traditionally been represented as a man whose ethics are overly rational, excessively formal, and too scholarly to be of much use in contemporary society. The Primacy of Love gives us a fresh look at his ethical thought and invites us to become part of his vision of the moral life as partners in God's perfect love. Author Paul Wadell gives special attention to the role of the passions, affections, and emotions in our moral life and creates a richly humane and compelling study written in a clear and accessible style. The Primacy of Love is a modern map for our own moral journey that is not so much something to study, but a way of life in which to participate. To follow this journey is to take up an adventure that will involve you from the center of your being and will change you forever.

Author : J.C. Doig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401597715

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Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics by J.C. Doig Pdf

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.

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Nicholas Austin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781626164734

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Aquinas on Virtue by Nicholas Austin Pdf

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.

Author : Leo Elders
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0820477133

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The Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas by Leo Elders Pdf

The far reaching changes in man's social and personal life taking place in our lifetime underline the need for a sound ethical evaluation of our rights and duties and of human behaviour both on the individual level and in the political society. On many issues judgments of value vary widely and a consultation of the thought of Thomas Aquinas on the basic questions will be helpful, the more since he is not only one of the greatest philosophers but also succeeded in integrating in his moral philosophy the wisdom of the ancients, in particular of Aristotle and the Stoa. This book presents Aquinas's thought on such central questions as man's happiness, how to determine the morality of our actions, the natural law and the main virtues, as well as on the common good, war, human labour, love and friendship. Throughout the book the intellectual character of this moral philosophy is pointed out and problems are set in a historical perspective.

Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : [Hamden, Conn.] : Shoe String Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : MSU:31293029455486

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Moral Values and the Moral Life by Etienne Gilson Pdf

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : UCD:31175018298094

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Aquinas Ethicus by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf