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Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues A Summa of the Summa on Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Courage
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaczor, Christopher, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion.
- Cardinal virtues.
- Ethics--Philosophy.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Catholic University of America Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- <em>Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues</em> provides essentialpassages from Thomas's treatment of the cardinal virtues in the<em>Summa theologiae</em>, edited and explained for classroom useor the independent reader. Arranged for beginners, this bookcontains passages from the <em>Summa theologiae</em> of greathistorical import, contemporary relevance, or intrinsic interestcombined with abundant footnotes aiding the modern reader. Eachindividual article is arranged so that the question, e.g. "Iscapital punishment moral?" is followed directed by Thomas's answer.Then the first objection is raised, followed immediately byThomas's response, the second objection is raised and then Thomasanswers it, and so forth. The abundant footnotes help first timereaders navigate key theological and philosophical terms which maybe unfamiliar. In addition, the notes provide biographicalinformation about key authors cited by Thomas, such as Tully,Vegetius, and Gregory the Great. The footnotes sometimes look backat the sources and philosophical roots of what Thomas teaches.Other notes note how authors after Aquinas including theologians,church councils, and popes developed, synthesized, and sometimesrejected what Thomas teaches. In sum, this book seeks to illuminateThomas's teaching on the cardinal virtues such as a teacher mightdo in the classroom.
- Contents:
- Article 4: Does anyone who does an unjust act sin mortally?
- Question 60: Judgment
- Article 2: Is it moral to judge people?
- Article 4: Should doubts be interpreted for the best?
- Parts of Justice
- Question 61: The Parts of Justice
- Article 1: Is justice suitably divided into commutative justice and distributive justice?
- Question 62: Restitution
- Article 5: Must restitution always be made to the person from whom a thing has been taken?
- Vices Contrary to Commutative Justice in Deeds
- Question 64: Murder
- Article 1: Is it immoral to kill any living thing?
- Article 2: Is right fittingly divided into natural right and positive right?
- Question 58: Justice
- Article 1: Is justice fittingly defined as being the perpetual and constant will to render to each one his right?
- Article 3: Is justice a virtue?
- Article 8: Does particular justice have a special matter?
- Article 9: Is justice about the passions?
- Article 11: Is the act of justice to render to each one his own?
- Article 12: Is justice the foremost among all moral virtues?
- Question 59: Injustice
- Article 2: Is a person unjust through doing an unjust thing?
- Question 55: Counterfeit Practical Wisdom
- Article 1: Is prudence of the flesh a sin?
- Article 2: Is prudence of the flesh a mortal sin?
- Article 3: Is craftiness a special sin?
- Article 6: Is anxious care about temporal things contrary to prudence?
- Precepts Relating to Practical Wisdom
- Question 56: The Precepts Concerning Practical Wisdom
- Article 1: Should the Ten Commandments have included a precept of practical wisdom?
- Justice
- Introduction
- Justice Itself
- Question 57: What is Right
- Article 1: Is right the object of justice?
- Article 1: Is practical wisdom fittingly divided into three parts?
- Question 49: Quasi-Integral Parts of Practical Wisdom
- Article 3: Is teachableness a part of practical wisdom?
- Article 6: Is foresight a part of practical wisdom?
- Gift of Practical Wisdom
- Question 52: The Gift of Counsel
- Article 1: Should counsel be considered among the gifts of the Holy Spirit?
- Vices Contrary to Practical Wisdom
- Question 53: Imprudence
- Article 1: Is imprudence a sin?
- Article 5: Is inconstancy [lack of persistance] a vice against practical wisdom?
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword by Ralph McInerney
- General Introduction
- Practical Wisdom (Prudence)
- Practical Wisdom Itself
- Question 47: The Virtue of Practical Wisdom
- Article 1: Is prudence in the faculty of reason?
- Article 4: Is practical wisdom a virtue?
- Article 6: Does practical wisdom appoint the end to moral virtues?
- Article 13: Can practical wisdom be in sinners?
- Article 14: Is practical wisdom in all who have grace?
- Article 15: Is practical wisdom in us by nature?
- Parts of Practical Wisdom
- Question 48: The Parts of Practical Wisdom
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-3362-3
- OCLC:
- 1224367338
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