Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil
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Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil

A Critical Guide

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eBook - PDF

Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil

A Critical Guide

About this book

Thomas Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil is a careful and detailed analysis of the general topic of evil, including discussions on evil as privation, human free choice, the cause of moral evil, moral failure, and the so-called seven deadly sins. This collection of ten, specially commissioned new essays, the first book-length English-language study of Disputed Questions on Evil, examines the most interesting and philosophically relevant aspects of Aquinas's work, highlighting what is distinctive about it and situating it in relation not only to Aquinas's other works but also to contemporary philosophical debates in metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of action. The essays also explore the history of the work's interpretation. The volume will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of philosophical disciplines including medieval philosophy and history of philosophy, as well as to theologians.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Metaphysical themes in De malo, 1
  12. 2 Weakness and willful wrongdoing in Aquinas’s De malo
  13. 3 Free choice
  14. 4 Venial sin and the ultimate end
  15. 5 The promise and pitfalls of glory: Aquinas on the forgotten vice of vainglory
  16. 6 The goodness and evil of objects and ends
  17. 7 Evil and moral failure in De malo
  18. 8 Attention, intentionality, and mind-reading in Aquinas’s De malo, q. 16, a. 8
  19. 9 Evil as privation: the Neoplatonic background to Aquinas’s De malo, 1
  20. 10 Moral luck and the capital vices in De malo: gluttony and lust
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index