Book Description
Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.
Author : Robert Miner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521897483
Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.
Author : Servais Pinckaers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813227518
This book, the last that noted moral theologian Servais Pinckaers, OP, wrote before his death, was conceived as a follow-up to his previous work Plaidoyer pour la vertu (An Appeal for Virtue) (2007) Pinckaers' aim in Passions and Virtue was to show the positive and essential role that our emotions play in the life of virtue. His purpose is part of a larger project of renewing moral theology, a theology too often experienced as an ethics of obligation rather than as a practical guide to living virtuously. To this end, Pinckaers sketches a positive psychology of the passions as found in the biblical tradition, in the writings of the Fathers of the Church, in pagan authors and, especially, in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Author : Paul Gondreau
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Jesus Christ
ISBN : 9781589661707
In the reams of scholarship on Thomas Aquinas, little attention has been paid to his study of Christ's human affectivity. Paul Gondreau's book fills that void in Thomistic scholarship, tracing the sources of Aquinas's doctrine on Christ's passions, the integral nature of that doctrine to his overall Christology, and the medieval context in which he developed his theology. This groundbreaking volume also addresses how Aquinas treats specific examples of the passions of Christ, including pain, sorrow, fear, wonder, and anger. The Passions of Christ's Soul in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas will be an invaluable resource for theology students and scholars.
Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113943697X
Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteenth-century theological psychologies and placing Charles Darwin and William James within a broader and more complex nineteenth-century setting, Thomas Dixon argues that this domination by one single descriptive category is not healthy. Overinclusivity of 'the emotions' hampers attempts to argue with any subtlety about the enormous range of mental states and stances of which humans are capable. This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.
Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1989-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 162466198X
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum
Author : Nicholas Emerson Lombardo
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813217970
Focusing on the Summa theologiae, Nicholas Lombardo contributes to the recovery, reconstruction, and critique of Aquinas's account of emotion in dialogue with both the Thomist tradition and contemporary analytic philosophy
Author : Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802873251
"Aquinas," says Jean Porter, "gets justice right." In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions. For Aquinas, justice is more about interpersonal morality than civic or social obligations, and Porter masterfully draws out the contemporary significance of Aquinas's perspective. - back of book.
Author : Robert C. Miner
Publisher :
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 9780511517464
Author : Nicholas Austin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1626164738
Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.
Author : Anastasia Philippa Scrutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144114577X
Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on the idea that God suffers with us. Contemporary philosophy of emotion reflects this divide. Some philosophers argue that emotions are voluntary and intelligent mental events, making them potentially compatible with omniscience and omnipotence. Others claim that emotions are involuntary and basically physiological, rendering them inconsistent with traditional divine attributes. Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility creates a three-way conversation between the debate in theology, contemporary philosophy of emotion, and pre-modern (particularly Augustinian and Thomist) conceptions of human affective experience. It also provides an exploration of the intelligence and value of the emotions of compassion, anger and jealousy.