Author : G. Simon Harak
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2001-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 157910830X
The Formation of Christian Character, G. Simon Harak, S.J. Suggests that morality is best approached from a discussion of human passions -- what moves us, draws us, engages our fascination and interest.
Author : Servais Pinckaers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 31,69 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 : Howard J. Curzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199693722
Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.
Author : Jiyuan Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1136748555
As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.
Author : Archibald Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1734
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : Eva Brann
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1589880463
Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, and also includes a chapter on contemporary studies on the brain. This book provides a comprehensive look at this pervasive and elusive topic.
Author : Nicholas Xenos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135929270
Xenos dissects the political ideas of Leo Strauss by careful attention to his full body of work. The result is a critical examination of Strauss’s political theory and its influence on the neoconservative foreign policy of the Bush administration.
Author : Christine Swanton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2024-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198922671
In Love and its Place in Virtue, Christine Swanton argues for an original position on the relations between love and virtue and love and virtue ethics. For this task the distinction between love as an emotion or emotional orientation and virtuous forms of love is central, as is the role of a conception of practical wisdom in virtuous love. How love features in virtue in general, including virtues which are not virtues of love, is the central theme. This book integrates virtue ethics with a renewed interest in the role of love in ethics. Until now virtue ethics and philosophical accounts of love have been separate fields. In Swanton's account of love she argues that there are many criteria for love which feature in various ways in the different forms of love. Central is the distinction between relational love between individuals and lovingness (in its various forms) as a fundamental emotional orientation towards the world as a whole (a Grundstimmung). Love and its Place in Virtue discusses "foundational" love (universal love, self-love and dwelling love), some of the impartial virtues of love, notably universal beneficence, impartial caring and forgiveness, as well as the relation between love and the personal virtue of justice, arguing that though justice is a virtue of respect it should be loving.
Author : Nicholas Austin, SJ
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1626164746
Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading 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 (1224–1274). Taking as its starting point Aquinas's neglected definition of virtue in terms of its "causes," this book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life. Drawing on connections and contrasts between Aquinas and contemporary treatments of virtue, Austin argues that Aquinas’s causal virtue theory retains its normative power today. As well as providing a synoptic account of Aquinas on virtue, the book includes an extended treatment of the cardinal virtue of temperance, an argument for the superiority of Aquinas's concept of "habit" over modern psychological accounts, and a rethinking of the relation between grace and virtue. With an approach that is distinctively theological yet strongly conversant with philosophy, this study will offer specialists a bold new interpretation of Aquinas’s virtue theory while giving students a systematic introduction with suggested readings from his Summa Theologiae and On the Virtues.
Author : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0268158037
In his Treatise on the Virtues, Aquinas discusses the character and function of habit; the essence, subject, cause, and meaning of virtue; and the separate intellectual, moral, cardinal, and theological virtues. His work constitutes one of the most thorough and incisive accounts of virtue in the history of Christian philosophy. John Oesterle's accurate and elegant translation makes this enduring work readily accessible to the modern reader.
