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Thomas Aquinas on virtue and human flourishing /

Thomas Aquinas offers teleological systematisation of the habits needed for human flourishing. His metaphysical jurisprudence remodels ethics upon this, rather than on a moral precept. ""Eternal law"" governing the world determines ""natural law"", reflected i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Theron, Stephen, 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Introduction: Inclinations and Beatitude; 1. Ethics; 2. Human Acts; 3. Finis ultimus; 4. Teleology; 5. The Virtues; 6. Duty, Obligation, Law; 7. Morals and Metaphysics: Fact and Value; 8. What is Law?; 9. Natural Law in St. Thomas's Thought; 10. Natural Law: Other Views; 11. Does Morality Require a Divine Law-Giver?; 12. Conscience; 13. The Intellectual Virtues; 14. The Moral Virtues; 15. The Cardinal Virtues; 16. The Theological Virtues; 17. Natural Law and the Acts of the Virtues; 18. Prudence: The Unity of the Virtues; 19. A Fourfold Scheme
  • 20. Justice: Legal and Moral Debt Compared21. Fortitude: The Example of Audacity; 22. Temperance and the bonum honestum; 23. Natural Inclinations and their Order