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oapen-20.500.12657-300202024-03-25T09:51:40Z Aquinas on Virtue Austin, SJ, Nicholas Theology & Religion Christian Ethics Catholicism Theology Thomas Aquinas Philosophy Virtue Causality God God in Christianity Temperance (virtue) thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy 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, etc. 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2019-05-08 03:00:47 2020-04-01T12:42:44Z 2020-04-01T12:42:44Z 2018-04-30 book 650076 OCN: 1038409006 9781626164734;9781626164741 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30020 eng Moral Traditions series application/pdf n/a 650076.pdf Georgetown University Press 101708 00e0eda8-c0d7-4d2b-95d7-cff52dbead46 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781626164734;9781626164741 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Washington, DC 101708 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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, etc. 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.
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