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1 online resource |
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 |
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20. Justice: Legal and Moral Debt Compared21. Fortitude: The Example of Audacity; 22. Temperance and the bonum honestum; 23. Natural Inclinations and their Order |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 23, 2018) |
Subject |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Ethics
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast |
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Virtue -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Philosophy.
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Ethics & moral philosophy.
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Christianity.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Ethics
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Virtue.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781527505490 |
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1527505499 |
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1527510298 |
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9781527510296 |
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