The Ethics of AquinasGeorgetown University Press, 2002 - 496 pages In this comprehensive anthology, twenty-seven outstanding scholars from North America and Europe address every major aspect of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of morality and comment on his remarkable legacy. While there has been a revival of interest in recent years in the ethics of St. Thomas, no single work has yet fully examined the basic moral arguments and content of Aquinas' major moral work, the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae. This work fills that lacuna. The first chapters of The Ethics of Aquinas introduce readers to the sources, methods, and major themes of Aquinas's ethics. The second part of the book provides an extended discussion of ideas in the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae, in which contributors present cogent interpretations of the structure, major arguments, and themes of each of the treatises. The third and final part examines aspects of Thomistic ethics in the twentieth century and beyond. These essays reflect a diverse group of scholars representing a variety of intellectual perspectives. Contributors span numerous fields of study, including intellectual history, medieval studies, moral philosophy, religious ethics, and moral theology. This remarkable variety underscores how interpretations of Thomas's ethics continue to develop and evolve-and stimulate fervent discussion within the academy and the church. This volume is aimed at scholars, students, clergy, and all those who continue to find Aquinas a rich source of moral insight. |
Contents
The Sources of the Ethics of St Thomas Aquinas | 17 |
Overview of the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas | 30 |
The First Part of the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae | 55 |
The Will and Its Acts Ia IIae qq 617 | 79 |
The Passions of the Soul Ia IIae qq 2248 | 103 |
Habits and Virtues Ia IIae qq 4970 | 116 |
The Intellectual Virtues Ia IIae qq 5758 | 131 |
Vice and Sin Ia IIae qq 7189 | 151 |
The Theological Virtue of Charity IIa Пae qq 2346 | 244 |
The Virtue of Prudence IIa IIae qq 4756 | 259 |
The Virtue of Justice IIa IIae qq 58122 | 272 |
Sins Against Justice IIa IIae qq 5978 | 287 |
The Virtue of Courage IIa IIae qq 123140 | 304 |
The Virtue of Temperance IIa IIae qq 141170 | 321 |
Charisms Forms and States of Life IIa IIae qq 171189 | 340 |
Aspects of | 355 |
Natural Law and Human Law Ia IIae qq 9097 | 169 |
The Old Law and the New Law Ia IIae qq 98108 | 194 |
Grace Ia IIae qq 109114 | 207 |
An Invitation to an Ecclesial Life of Truth | 221 |
Redemptorist and Jesuit Schools in the Twentieth Century | 374 |
Interpretations of Aquinass Ethics Since Vatican II | 412 |
Contributors | 457 |