Thomas Aquinas on virtue and human flourishing /

Thomas Aquinas on virtue and human flourishing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Theron, Stephen, 1939- author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274 -- Ethics. Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274. Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274. Virtue -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Ethics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12483752

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ISBN:	9781527505490 1527505499 1527510298 9781527510296 1527505499
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2018).
Summary:	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 in human legislation (a variety of the ""anthropic principle""). Finally, law, unwritten, is infused spirit as self-consciousness, ""universal of universals"". Acquired virtues elicit this, become effusion, represented in religion as gifts or graces. But mind's or spirit's omnipresence, necessarily ""closer to me than I am to myself"", sup.

Table of 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 Compared
21. Fortitude: The Example of Audacity
22. Temperance and the bonum honestum
23. Natural Inclinations and their Order