Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
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Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

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Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Chapter One Introduction
  6. Chapter Two Historical accuracy in Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics
  7. Chapter Three Structure and method in Aquinas's appropriation of Aristotelian ethical theory
  8. Chapter Four Duplex beatitudo
  9. Chapter Five Aquinas on choice, will, and voluntary action
  10. Chapter Six Losable Virtue
  11. Chapter Seven Aquinas's Aristotelian defense of martyr courage
  12. Chapter Eight Being truthful with (or lying to) others about oneself
  13. Chapter Nine Aquinas on Aristotelian justice
  14. Chapter Ten Prudence and practical principles
  15. Chapter Eleven Aquinas on incontinence and psychological weakness
  16. Chapter Twelve Philia and Caritas
  17. Chapter Thirteen Pleasure, a supervenient end
  18. Chapter Fourteen Aristotle, Aquinas, Anscombe, and the new virtue ethics
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index of names