Aquinas on Virtue : A Causal Reading /

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, Aq...

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Main Author: Austin, Nicholas, 1970- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2017.
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505 0 |a Defining virtue -- Defining temperance causally -- Virtue as a habit -- Virtue as a good habit -- Virtue's definition -- Causal ethics -- Exemplar and object -- End and agent -- The causal analysis of virtue -- Rational virtue -- Passionate virtue -- Telic virtue -- Graced virtue -- Rethinking infusion -- Appendix : Virtue defined. 
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