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Author : Nicholas Kahm
Release : 2019
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 574/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason by : Nicholas Kahm
Download or read book Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason written by Nicholas Kahm. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Emerson Lombardo
Release : 2011
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 970/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Logic of Desire by : Nicholas Emerson Lombardo
Download or read book The Logic of Desire written by Nicholas Emerson Lombardo. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Summa theologiae, Nicholas Lombardo contributes to the recovery, reconstruction, and critique of Aquinas's account of emotion in dialogue with both the Thomist tradition and contemporary analytic philosophy
Author : Nicholas Kahm
Release : 2014
Genre : Habit
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Book Synopsis Thomas Aquinas on the Sense Appetite as Participating in Reason by : Nicholas Kahm
Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on the Sense Appetite as Participating in Reason written by Nicholas Kahm. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Aquinas and Aristotle, moral virtue and vice, and also continence and incontinence, concern the manner in which the sense appetites (the seat of the passions or emotions) participate in reason. This dissertation examines exactly how this participation works in Aquinas's thought. The first chapter examines how reason and the sense appetites are parts of the soul and the manner in which the soul can be spoken of as a whole composed of parts. The second chapter investigates how these parts can be ordered or disordered and the manner in which moral virtue is an ordering of the parts of the soul. The third chapter examines the metaphysical status of these parts of the soul and their habits and it also examines Aquinas's doctrine of participation. The fourth and fifth chapters examine Aquinas's doctrine of how the sense appetites participate in reason in his early texts (1251-1259) and his late texts (1268-1274) respectively and charts development in Aquinas's thought. The sixth chapter discusses Aquinas's mature thinking in light of the current scholarship on this topic. The conclusion explains exactly what kind of participation Aquinas has in mind when he says that the sense appetites participate in reason.
Author : Diana Fritz Cates
Release : 2009-10-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aquinas on the Emotions by : Diana Fritz Cates
Download or read book Aquinas on the Emotions written by Diana Fritz Cates. This book was released on 2009-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us want to be happy and live well. Sometimes intense emotions affect our happiness—and, in turn, our moral lives. Our emotions can have a significant impact on our perceptions of reality, the choices we make, and the ways in which we interact with others. Can we, as moral agents, have an effect on our emotions? Do we have any choice when it comes to our emotions? In Aquinas on the Emotions, Diana Fritz Cates shows how emotions are composed as embodied mental states. She identifies various factors, including religious beliefs, intuitions, images, and questions that can affect the formation and the course of a person's emotions. She attends to the appetitive as well as the cognitive dimension of emotion, both of which Aquinas interprets with flexibility. The result is a powerful study of Aquinas that is also a resource for readers who want to understand and cultivate the emotional dimension of their lives.
Author : William C. Mattison III
Release : 2023-03-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Growing in Virtue by : William C. Mattison III
Download or read book Growing in Virtue written by William C. Mattison III. This book was released on 2023-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis tying the work of Aquinas to contemporary literature on virtue Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly analysis of what exactly these good habits are in which we grow. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Mattison offers a robust account of habits, including what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. He draws on Aquinas to carefully delineate the commonalities and differences between natural (acquired) virtues and graced (infused) virtues. Along the way, Mattison discusses the distinction between disposition and habit; the role of “custom” in virtue formation; the nature of virtuous passions; the distinct contribution of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to graced life; explanations for persistent activity after the loss of virtue; and the possibility of coexistence of the infused and acquired virtues in the same person. For readers interested in virtue and morality from a philosophical perspective and scholars of theological ethics and moral theology in particular, Mattison offers compelling arguments from the work of Aquinas explicitly connected to contemporary scholarship in philosophical virtue ethics.
