Screen LibraryThomas Aquinas on virtue /
"Virtue plays a central role in Thomas Aquinas's moral theory. Agents are good because their acts are good. Virtues are capacities by which agents are able to produce these good acts consistently, pleasurably, and for their own sake. This book presents Thomas Aquinas's more general ac...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Virtue plays a central role in Thomas Aquinas's moral theory. Agents are good because their acts are good. Virtues are capacities by which agents are able to produce these good acts consistently, pleasurably, and for their own sake. This book presents Thomas Aquinas's more general account of virtue in its historical, chronological, philosophical, and theological context. It attempts to help the reader to understand what Thomas himself wished to teach about virtue, even if the material might seem at times distant from contemporary ethical discussions"-- Thomas Aquinas produced a voluminous body of work on moral theory, and much of that work is on virtue, particularly the status and value of the virtues as principles of virtuous acts, and the way in which a moral life can be organized around them schematically. Thomas Osborne presents Aquinas's account of virtue in its historical, philosophical, and theological contexts, to show the reader what Aquinas himself wished to teach about virtue. His discussion makes the complexities of Aquinas's moral thought accessible to readers despite the differences between Thomas's texts themselves, and the distance between our background assumptions and his. The book will be valuable for scholars and students in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology--back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 233 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-230) and index. |
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9781316511749 131651174X |
| Index Number: | B765 |
| CLC: | B503.21 |
| Call Number: | B503.21/O817 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. The definition of virtue -- 2. Intellectual and moral virtue -- 3. Divisions of moral virtue -- 4. Natural and supernatural virtue -- 5. The properties of virtue -- 6. Thomistic virtue and contemporary thought -- Conclusion. |