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)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.