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Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics.
Discusses Aquinas's reception of Aristotle's work, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle's ethics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Aristotle; Aquinas; Other abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; 1.1 A sketch of Aristotle's influence on Aquinas's Ethics; 1.2 Issues, aims, and structure of this volume; 1.3 A glance at the results; Chapter Two Historical accuracy in Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics; 2.1 Aquinas as historian; 2.2 A strict historical view; 2.3 Historical accuracy and philosophical judgment; 2.4 The desiring part and the non-rational part; 2.5 Happiness as complete; 2.6 The role of the will; 2.7 The kalon; 2.8 Conclusion.
- Chapter Three Structure and method in Aquinas's appropriation of Aristotelian ethical theory3.1 Some problems in Aristotle's ethics; 3.2 The Aristotelian solutions of Aquinas; 3.2.1 Basic virtues; 3.2.2 How secondary virtues relate to basic virtues; 3.3 Defining virtue; 3.4 The difference in method between Aquinas's ethical theory and Aristotle's; 3.5 Conclusion; Chapter Four Duplex beatitudo; 4.1 Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; 4.2 Philosophical happiness in the two Ethics commentaries by Albert the Great; 4.3 Imperfect happiness in Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum.
- 4.4 Aquinass critique of an "Averroistic" reading of human happiness4.5 Perfect happiness in Aquinas's theological writings; 4.6 Aquinas and Aristotelian happiness; Chapter Five Aquinas on choice, will, and voluntary action; 5.1 Aquinas's interpretation of EN 3.1-5 in the SLE; 5.1.1 The overall structure of Aquinass interpretation; 5.1.2 Aquinass treatment of choice in the SLE; 5.2 Aquinas's own theory of choice, will, and voluntary action; 5.2.1 Choice as the rational human act par excellence; 5.2.2 Choice as the only free act of will; 5.2.3 The respective roles of reason and will.
- 5.3 ConclusionChapter Six Losable Virtue; 6.1 Strengths and pitfalls of Aquinas's Ethics commentary; 6.2 The will as a capacity for free choice; 6.3 Two key conceptual changes; 6.3.1 Principal virtues; 6.3.2 Dispositions, including virtues; Chapter Seven Aquinas's Aristotelian defense of martyr courage; 7.1 Bravery in the Nicomachean Ethics; 7.2 Fortitude in Albert the Great's Super Ethica; 7.3 Fortitude in Aquinas's commentary on the Sentences; 7.4 Fortitude in the Sententia libri Ethicorum, compared with Albert's Super Ethica; 7.5 Fortitude in the Summa theologiae; 7.6 Conclusion.
- Chapter Eight Being truthful with (or lying to) others about oneself8.1 Larger contexts; 8.2 EN 4.7, Section 1: Falsehood as foul and blameworthy; 8.3 EN 4.7, Section 2: Ways of being an imposter; 8.4 Aquinas's commentary upon EN 4.7; 8.5 Truthfulness in Summa theologiae 2-2.109-113; Chapter Nine Aquinas on Aristotelian justice; 9.1 Universal justice; 9.2 The division of particular justice into species; 9.3 Un-Aristotelian elements; 9.4 Integration; 9.5 Conclusion; Chapter Ten Prudence and practical principles; 10.1 Aristotle on knowing ends; 10.2 Aquinas on universal practical principles.