Aquinas on emotion's participation in reason / Nicholas Kahm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahm, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Reason.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, 2019.

Summary:

Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason aims to present Aquinas's answer to the perennial and now popular question: In what way can the emotions be rational?For Aquinas, the starting point of this inquiry is Aristotle's claim (EN.I.

Contents:

The soul as a potential whole

Fragmentation of the soul into parts

The unification of the soul's parts

Disorder in the potential whole

Order in the potential whole

Participating in reason

Participation

Powers and passions in Aquinas's sentences commentary

Participation and virtue in Aquinas's sentences commentary

Participation in reason in the De veritate

Participating parts in late texts

Participation and virtue in late texts

Conclusion of part 2

The plausibility of Aquinas's position

What moral virtue does and does not do

Kant, Aristotle, and social psychology

Select bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-3158-2

OCLC:

1088342301