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Author Bowlin, John R., 1959-

Title Contingency and fortune in Aquinas's ethics / John Bowlin
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 6
Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 6.
Contents Virtue and difficulty -- The contingency of the human good -- Natural law and the limits of contingency -- Virtue and discontent -- Virtue and fortune
Summary In this study John Bowlin argues that Aquinas's moral theology receives much of its character and content from an assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult to know in particular, and difficult to will even when it is known, because of contingencies of various kinds - within ourselves, in the ends and objects we pursue, and in the circumstances of choice. Since contingencies are fortune's effects, Aquinas also assumes that it is fortune that makes good choice difficult. And since it is the virtues that perfect choice, Aquinas finds he must treat a number of topics in light of this difficulty; the moral and theological virtues, the first precepts of the natural law, the voluntariness of virtuous action, and the happiness available to us in this life. By noting that Aquinas proceeds in this way, with an eye on fortune's threats to virtue, agency, and happiness, Bowlin places him more precisely in the history of ethics, among Aristotle, Augustine, and the Stoics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index
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Subject Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Ethics
SUBJECT Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast
Thomas d'Aquin (saint ; 1225-1274) -- Morale. ram
Subject Contingency (Philosophy) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History
Fortune -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Fortune -- Moral and ethical aspects
Ethiek.
Contingentie.
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Filosofia medieval.
Ética.
Teologia moral.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98035103
ISBN 0511003501
9780511003509