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Auteur(s) : Austin, Nicholas (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Aquinas on virtue [Texte imprimé] : a causal reading / Nicholas Austin
Publication : Washington (D.C.) : Georgetown university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxiv-233 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Moral traditions series
Lien à la collection : Moral traditions series
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 215-224. Index
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest, is one
of the most influential theologians in the Christian tradition--and certainly the
most influential theologian of the Roman Catholic Church. By synthesizing classical
Christian theology with Aristotelian philosophy, Aquinas's thought continues to have
an astonishing impact on an array of disciplines. 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--a movement
in Catholic and Protestant and Orthodox traditions that attempts to answer the question,
"How should I live?"--To date no full-length treatment of Aquinas's theory of virtue
exists. Nicholas Austin aims to fill that gap. Aquinas on Virtue 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
Sujet(s) : Thomas d'Aquin (1225?-1274 ; saint) -- Critique et interprétation
Vertus
Éthique des vertus
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781626164727 (br.). - ISBN 162616472X. - ISBN 9781626164734. - ISBN 1626164738.
- ISBN 9781626164741 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454203212
Notice n° :
FRBNF45420321
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part I. Defining virtue. Defining temperance causally ; Virtue as a habit ; Virtue
as a good habit ; Virtue's definition ; Part II. Causal ethics. Exemplar and object
; End and agent ; Part III. The causal analysis of virtue. Rational virtue ; Passionate
virtue ; Telic virtue ; Graced virtue ; Rethinking infusion ; Appendix : Virtue
defined.
