The Nature of the Practical Intellect According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Publisher : Gregorian & Biblical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Nature of the Practical Intellect According to Saint Thomas Aquinas by : John E. Naus

Download or read book The Nature of the Practical Intellect According to Saint Thomas Aquinas written by John E. Naus and published by Gregorian & Biblical Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into the nature of the practical intellect will obviously be primarily psychological. However, the psychological insights which one derives from such a study will extend into other areas of philosophy. This is particularly true of the influence which correct or false notions about practical knowledge have on ethics. For example Situation Ethics propose that they find the kernel of their subjective system of morality in the doctrine of St. Thomas on the twofold truth. For truth of the speculative intellect means conformity of that faculty to the thing... But truth of the practical intellect means conformity of the intellect to right appetite. This bifurcation of truth, conclude proponents of situation ethics, justifies the antithesis which often appears between universal principles of speculative ethics and existential judgment of conscience which a man makes in concrete circumstances. Situation ethics is in great part a reaction to all moral philosophy which is exclusively, or even excessively, a priori, deductive, and universal. In the sweep of their condemnation, they find little need to distinguish between Kantian rationalism and scholastic ethics.

Wisdom, Law, and Virtue

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823227960
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Wisdom, Law, and Virtue by : Lawrence Dewan

Download or read book Wisdom, Law, and Virtue written by Lawrence Dewan and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses on morals, how human beings should live their lives. The essays included treat the history of philosophy as a development that proceeds by deepening appreciation of basic questions rather than the constant replacement of one worldview by another.

Disputed Questions on Virtue

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603844449
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Disputed Questions on Virtue by : Thomas Aquinas

Download or read book Disputed Questions on Virtue written by Thomas Aquinas and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text.

Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107276403
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics by : Tobias Hoffmann

Download or read book Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics written by Tobias Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.

Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221781
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham by : Thomas Michael Osborne

Download or read book Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham written by Thomas Michael Osborne and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

By Knowledge & by Love

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813213932
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Book Synopsis By Knowledge & by Love by : Michael S. Sherwin

Download or read book By Knowledge & by Love written by Michael S. Sherwin and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Knowledge and By Love represents a major contribution to Thomistic moral theology and philosophy by providing a thoughtful examination of Aquinas' psychology of action and his theology of charity.

Treatise on Law

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Book Synopsis Treatise on Law by : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)

Download or read book Treatise on Law written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Perceptual Puzzles

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004413030
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Perceptual Puzzles written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things – such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines – and perception allows us access to them. But what does ‘to perceive’ actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play a role in perception? Such questions occur naturally today. But was it the same in the past, centuries ago? The collected volume tackles this issue by turning to the Latin philosophy of the 13th and 14th centuries. Did medieval thinkers raise the same, or similar, questions as we do with respect to perception? What answers did they provide? What arguments did they make for raising the questions they did, and for the answers they gave to them? The philosophers taken into consideration are, among others, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, John Pecham, Richard Rufus, Peter Olivi, Robert Kilwardby, John Buridan, and Jean of Jandun. Contributors are Elena Băltuță, Daniel De Haan, Martin Klein, Andrew LaZella, Lukáš Lička, Mattia Mantovani, André Martin, Dominik Perler, Paolo Rubini, José Filipe Silva, Juhana Toivanen, and Rega Wood.

Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107165784
Total Pages : 325 pages
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Book Synopsis Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics by : J. Budziszewski

Download or read book Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics written by J. Budziszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.

Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651174X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Thomas Aquinas on Virtue by : Thomas Osborne

Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on Virtue written by Thomas Osborne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316060942
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law by : J. Budziszewski

Download or read book Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law written by J. Budziszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural moral law stands at the center of Western ethics and jurisprudence and plays a leading role in interreligious dialogue. Although the greatest source of the classical natural law tradition is Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, the Treatise is notoriously difficult, especially for nonspecialists. J. Budziszewski has made this formidable work luminous. This book - the first classically styled, line-by-line commentary on the Treatise in centuries - reaches out to philosophers, theologians, social scientists, students, and general readers alike. Budziszewski shows how the Treatise facilitates a dialogue between author and reader. Explaining and expanding upon the text in light of modern philosophical developments, he expounds this work of the great thinker not by diminishing his reasoning, but by amplifying it.

Perfecting Human Actions

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813216729
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis Perfecting Human Actions by : John Michael Rziha

Download or read book Perfecting Human Actions written by John Michael Rziha and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last few centuries, a practical dichotomy between God and humans has developed within moral theory. As a result, moral theory tends to focus only on humans where human autonomy is foundational or only on God where divine commands capriciously rule. However, the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas overcomes this dichotomy. For Thomas, humans reach their perfection by participating in God's wisdom and love. Perfecting Human Actions explores the ways humans participate in eternal law--God's wisdom that guides and moves all things to their proper action. The book begins with a thoughtful examination of the philosophic recovery of the notion of participation in Thomistic metaphysics. It then explains Thomas's theological understanding of the notion of participation to show how humans are related to God. It is discovered that when performing human actions, humans participate in the eternal law in two ways: as moved and governed by it, and cognitively. In reference to participation as moved and governed, humans are directed by God to their proper end of eternal happiness. This mode of participation can be increased by perfecting the natural inclinations through virtue, grace, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In reference to cognitive participation, humans as rational creatures can know their proper end and how to attain it. Through this knowledge of moral truths, the intellect participates in the eternal law. Cognitive participation is perfected by the intellectual virtues (especially faith) and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (especially wisdom). The book concludes by showing how the notion of human participation in the eternal law is a much better foundation for moral theory than the contemporary notion of autonomy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Rziha is associate professor of theology at Benedictine College. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: " A] competent and indeed masterful study. . . . Rziha's book is to be welcomed as not just an important, but indeed an overdue contribution to the contemporary recovery of Aquinas's moral theory. More importantly, this study is of surpassing importance in advancing the correct understanding of the relationship between human freedom and natural law. . . . Rziha's lucidly written and well-documented study displays all the characteristics of a competent and learned interpretation of the thought of the doctor communis according to the highest standards of current Aquinas scholarship."--Reinhard Hutter, Thomist "Rziha explores at length the two modes by which human participate in God's eternal law: as moved and governed by it and as having knowledge of it. . . . T]his book proves to be something of a comprehensive course in Thomistic thought. This project is supported by extensive and meticulous footnote reverences to texts of Aquinas." --Janine Marie Idziak, Speculum

The Light That Binds

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153264731X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis The Light That Binds by : Rev. Stephen L. Brock

Download or read book The Light That Binds written by Rev. Stephen L. Brock and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas's natural law teaching, and from many different perspectives. The aim of this book is to help see it from his own perspective. That is why the focus is metaphysical. Aquinas's whole moral doctrine is laden with metaphysics, and his natural law teaching especially so, because it is all about first principles. The book centers on how Aquinas thinks the first principles of practical reason, which for him are what make up natural law, function as laws. It is a controversial question, and the book engages a variety of readers of Aquinas, including Francisco Suarez, Jacques Maritain, prominent analytical philosophers, Straussians, and the initiators of the New Natural Law theory. Among the issues addressed are the relation between natural law and natural inclination, how far natural law depends on knowledge of human nature, what its obligatory force consists in, and, above all, how it is related to what for Aquinas is the first principle of all being, the divine will.

Christianity and the Laws of Conscience

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835384
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity and the Laws of Conscience by : Jeffrey B. Hammond

Download or read book Christianity and the Laws of Conscience written by Jeffrey B. Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.

Aristotle's Ethics and Medieval Philosophy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316489914
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Aristotle's Ethics and Medieval Philosophy by : Anthony Celano

Download or read book Aristotle's Ethics and Medieval Philosophy written by Anthony Celano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics had a profound influence on generations of later philosophers, not only in the ancient era but also in the medieval period and beyond. In this book, Anthony Celano explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle's Ethics according to their own moral ideals. He argues that the moral standard for the Ethics is a human one, which is based upon the ethical tradition and the best practices of a given society. In the Middle Ages, this human standard was replaced by one that is universally applicable, since its foundation is eternal immutable divine law. Celano resolves the conflicting accounts of happiness in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, demonstrates the importance of the virtue of phronesis (practical wisdom), and shows how the medieval view of moral reasoning alters Aristotle's concept of moral wisdom.

Treatise on Happiness

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268158029
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis Treatise on Happiness by : St. Thomas Aquinas

Download or read book Treatise on Happiness written by St. Thomas Aquinas and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challenging and classic statement of the goals of human life, both ultimate and proximate. This translation presents in accurate, consistent, contemporary English the great Christian thinker's enduring contributions on the subject of man's happiness.

Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine

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Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 081323347X
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Book Synopsis Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine by : Hieromonk Gregory Hrynkiw

Download or read book Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine written by Hieromonk Gregory Hrynkiw and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinal Tommaso de Vio (1469-1534), commonly known as Cajetan, remains a misunderstood figure. Cajetan on Sacred Doctrine is the first ever monograph on Cajetan as a theologian in his own right, and it fills an immense lacuna in the debate on the nature of sacred doctrine from the Thomism of the Renaissance. Confirming Cajetan as a key protagonist within the emergent Reformation, this work delivers an indispensable immersion into his theological method in relation to his closest predecessors and contemporaries: Hervaeus Natalis, Blessed Duns Scotus, Gregory of Rimini, Johannes Capreolus, Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, Martin Luther, and others. The first ever commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas’s entire Summa Theologiae was published by Cajetan. This monograph focuses primarily on the Summa Theologiae Ia pars, question 1, concerning sacred doctrine, and how Cajetan unpacks the potency of Aquinas’s opening syllogism, setting forth a coherent division of the question, and ultimately touching the mind of Aquinas when revealing the articles of the Apostles’ Creed as the Summa Theologiae’s macrostructure. Finally, we are shown how Cajetan emphasizes the essential link between ecclesiology and the communication of sacred doctrine, especially the papacy’s role in guaranteeing the proposal and explication of the faith. Cajetan’s accomplishments as a biblical exegete established him as a renowned Renaissance scholar and a forerunner of future ecumenical dialogue. Furthermore, his grasp of theology’s perennial properties continue to make him an important interlocutor in the renewed quest for a unity in theology in an ever more fragmented aggregation of theologies. Cajetan’s theological labor is a perpetuation of the via antiqua, a biblical-theological worldview handed down through Tradition. St. Gregory the Theologian (329-390), the via antiqua’s preeminent Eastern representative and chief theological constructor of Christendom, offers the monograph’s author--himself a Byzantine Hieromonk--a prime opportunity for a few closing insights on the innate symphony between two very distant periods and distinct theological traditions within the one ecumenical Church.