Passions And Virtue

Author : Servais Pinckaers,Michael Sherwin
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813227511

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Passions and Virtue by Servais Pinckaers,Michael Sherwin Pdf

This book, the last that noted moral theologian Servais Pinckaers, OP, wrote before his death, was conceived as a follow-up to his previous work Plaidoyer pour la vertu (An Appeal for Virtue) (2007) Pinckaers' aim in Passions and Virtue was to show the positive and essential role that our emotions play in the life of virtue. His purpose is part of a larger project of renewing moral theology, a theology too often experienced as an ethics of obligation rather than as a practical guide to living virtuously. To this end, Pinckaers sketches a positive psychology of the passions as found in the biblical tradition, in the writings of the Fathers of the Church, in pagan authors and, especially, in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Author : Sandra Maitri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781440649813

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The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues by Sandra Maitri Pdf

How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches. The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues elucidates human experience beyond the personality structure. In the tradition of the enneagram, the Virtues are said to be the affective atmosphere that replaces the compulsive and reactive emotional patterns-called the Passions-as one becomes freer of the ego. Sandra Maitri shows how the shift in our consciousness, or soul, from being informed by the Passions to being informed by the Virtues, is one of the hallmarks of inner development. In this book, Maitri explores how our awareness of the Passions, in turn, leads to the manifestation of the Virtues. This shift supports rowth on the level of personality as well as on the level of what is beyond-Being, or True Nature. Maitri is widely known as one of the most literate and indepth writers and teachers on the uses of the enneagram as a tool of inner development. In this book she provides what can be for some an entry into inner work, and for others, who have been engaged in the journey for a longer time, a uniquely incisive explication of concepts they may have missed.

Author : G. Simon Harak
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579108304

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Virtuous Passions by G. Simon Harak Pdf

The Formation of Christian Character, G. Simon Harak, S.J. Suggests that morality is best approached from a discussion of human passions -- what moves us, draws us, engages our fascination and interest.

Author : Unhae Park Langis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441187451

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Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama by Unhae Park Langis Pdf

An analysis of passion, prudence and virtue in Shakespearean drama from the perspective of ethical criticism.

Author : Robert Miner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521897488

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Thomas Aquinas on the Passions by Robert Miner Pdf

Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.

Author : Remo Bodei
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781487517793

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Geometry of the Passions by Remo Bodei Pdf

The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision. By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two complementary logics. Geometry of the Passions investigates the paradoxical conflict-collaboration between passions and reason, and between individual and political projects. Tracing the roles passion and reason have played throughout history, including in the political agendas of Descartes, Hobbes, and the French Jacobins, Geometry of the Passions reveals how passion and reason may be used as a vehicle for affirmation rather than self-enslavement.

Author : Unhae Park Langis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441120243

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Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama by Unhae Park Langis Pdf

An analysis of passion, prudence and virtue in Shakespearean drama from the perspective of ethical criticism.

Author : Francis Hutcheson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1728
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019158571

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An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections by Francis Hutcheson Pdf

Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198847908

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Spinoza on Reason, Passions, and the Supreme Good by Andrea Sangiacomo Pdf

Spinoza's thought is at the centre of an ever growing interest. Spinoza's moral philosophy, in particular, points to a radical way of understanding how human beings can become free and enjoy supreme happiness. And yet, there is still much disagreement about how exactly Spinoza's recipe is supposed to work. For long time, Spinoza has been presented as an arch rationalist who would identify in the purely intellectual cultivation of reason the key for ethical progress. Andrea Sangiacomo offers a new understanding of Spinoza's project, by showing how he himself struggled during his career to develop a moral philosophy that could speak to human beings as they actually are (imperfect, passionate, often not very rational). Spinoza's views significantly evolved over time. In his early writings, Spinoza's account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions may support the individual's pursuit of the Supreme Good, achieving it does not depend essentially on social factors. In Spinoza's later writings, however, the emphasis shifts towards the mind's need to rely on appropriate forms of social cooperation. Reason becomes the mental expression of the way the human body interacts with external causes on the basis of some degree of agreement in nature with them. The greater the agreement, the greater the power of reason to adequately understand universal features as well as more specific traits of the external causes. In the case of human beings, certain kinds of social cooperation are crucial for the development of reason. This view has crucial ramifications for Spinoza's account of how individuals can progress towards the Supreme Good and how a political science based on Spinoza's principles can contribute to this goal.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402064227

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Virtues and Passions in Literature by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.

Author : Nicole Eustace
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838792

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Passion Is the Gale by Nicole Eustace Pdf

At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.

Author : Nicholas Austin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Francis Hutcheson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1728
Category : Emotions
ISBN : UCSF:31378008346507

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An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections by Francis Hutcheson Pdf

Author : Alix Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024915

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Kant's Lectures on Anthropology by Alix Cohen Pdf

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to Kant's lectures on anthropology and their philosophical importance.