Aquinas on Virtue A Causal Reading / Nicholas Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Nicholas, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest, is one of the most influential theologians in the Christian tradition. Scholarship on Aquinas is flourishing, with studies of natural law theory, action theory, the morality of the passions, feminism, political theory, et cetera Yet despite the contemporary renewal of virtue ethics, to date no full-length treatment of Aquinas' theory of virtue exists. Aquinas on Virtues offers a new and comprehensive interpretation of how Aquinas uses the four causes--formal, material, final, and efficient--to understand virtue in general, and how these causes underlie his treatment of specific virtues that make up the bulk of his ethics. In the final part of the book Austin applies the causal approach to four contested issues in contemporary virtue theory: practical wisdom; virtue and the passions; the teleology (or ultimate end) of virtue; and infused moral virtues, exploring the relation between grace and virtue.

Contents:

Part I Defining Virtue

1 Defining Temperance Causally 3

2 Virtue as a Habit 23

3 Virtue as a Good Habit 37

4 Virtue's Definition 58

Part II Causal Ethics

5 Exemplar and Object 75

6 End and Agent 92

Part III The Causal Analysis of Virtue

7 Rational Virtue 109

8 Passionate Virtue 130

9 Telic Virtue 150

10 Graced Virtue 168

11 Rethinking Infusion 190.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101708

ISBN:

9781626164734