Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoffmann, Tobias

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107272293
• Artikelnr.: 52952109

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller and Matthias Perkams; 2.
Historical accuracy in Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics T. H. Irwin; 3.
Structure and method in Aquinas's appropriation of Aristotelian ethical
theory Michael Pakaluk; 4. Duplex beatitudo: Aristotle's legacy and
Aquinas's conception of human happiness Jörn Müller; 5. Aquinas on choice,
will, and voluntary action Matthias Perkams; 6. Losable virtue: Aquinas on
character and will Bonnie Kent; 7. Aquinas's Aristotelian defense of martyr
courage Jennifer Herdt; 8. Being truthful with (or lying to) others about
oneself Kevin Flannery, SJ; 9. Aquinas on Aristotelian justice: defender,
destroyer, subverter, or surveyor? Jeffrey Hause; 10. Prudence and
practical principles Tobias Hoffmann; 11. Aquinas on incontinence and
psychological weakness Martin Pickavé; 12. Philia and caritas: some aspects
of Aquinas's reception of Aristotle's theory of friendship Marko Fuchs; 13.
Pleasure: a supervenient end Kevin White; 14. Aristotle, Aquinas, Anscombe,
and the new virtue ethics Candace Vogler.