The Ethics of Aquinas

by Pope, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780878408887
• ISBN10: 0878408886
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

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. The opening chapters of The Ethics of Aquinas introduce readers to the sources, methods, and major themes of Aquinas's ethics. Part II 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 the legacy of Thomistic ethics for the twentieth century and today. 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Stephen J. Pope is chair and associate professor in the Boston College Department of Theology

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
The Setting of the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas---Revisited	1	(16)
Leonard E. Boyle
The Sources of the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas	17	(13)
Servais-Theodore Pinckaers
Mary Thomas Noble
Overview of the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas	30	(27)
Stephen J. Pope
PART I: The First Part of the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae
Happiness (Ia IIae, qq. 1--5)	57	(12)
Georg Wieland
Grant Kaplan
The Will and Its Acts (Ia IIae, qq. 6--17)	69	(21)
David M. Gallagher
Good and Evil in Human Acts (Ia IIae, qq. 18--21)	90	(13)
Daniel Westberg
The Passions of the Soul (Ia IIae, qq. 22--48)	103	(13)
Kevin White
Habits and Virtues (Ia IIae, qq. 49--70)	116	(15)
Bonnie Kent
The Intellectual Virtues (Ia IIae, qq.57--58)	131	(20)
Gregory M. Reichberg
Vice and Sin (Ia IIae, qq. 71--89)	151	(18)
Eileen Sweeney
Natural Law and Human Law (Ia IIae, qq. 90--97)	169	(25)
Clifford G. Kossel
The Old Law and the New Law (Ia IIae, qq. 98--108)	194	(13)
Pamela M. Hall
Grace (Ia IIae, qq. 109--114)	207	(14)
Theo Kobusch
Grant Kaplan
Frederick G. Lawrence
PART II: The Second Part of the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae
The Theological Virtue of Faith: An Invitation to an Ecclesial Life of Truth (IIa IIae, qq. 1--16)	221	(11)
Stephen F. Brown
The Theological Virtue of Hope (IIa IIae, qq. 17--22)	232	(12)
Romanus Cessario
The Theological Virtue of Charity (IIa IIae, qq. 23--46)	244	(15)
Eberhard Schockenhoff
Grant Kaplan
Frederick G. Lawrence
The Virtue of Prudence (IIa IIae, qq. 47--56)	259	(13)
James F. Keenan
The Virtue of Justice (IIa IIae, qq. 58--122)	272	(15)
Jean Porter
Sins Against Justice (IIa IIae, qq. 59--78)	287	(17)
Martin Rhonheimer
Frederick G. Lawrence
The Virtue of Courage (IIa IIae, qq. 123--140)	304	(17)
R. E. Houser
The Virtue of Temperance (IIa IIae, qq. 141--170)	321	(19)
Diana Fritz Cates
Charisms, Forms, and States of Life (IIa IIae, qq. 171--189)	340	(15)
Serge-Thomas Bonino
Mary Thomas Noble
PART III: The Twentieth-Century Legacy
Interpreting Thomas Aquinas: Aspects of the Dominican School of Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century	355	(19)
Thomas F. O'Meara
Interpreting Thomas Aquinas: Aspects of the Redemptorist and Jesuit Schools in the Twentieth Century	374	(11)
Raphael Gallagher
Thomistic Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century	385	(27)
Clifford G. Kossel
Interpretations of Aquinas's Ethics Since Vatican II	412	(14)
Thomas S. Hibbs
The Evaluation of Goods and the Estimation of Consequences: Aquinas on the Determination of the Morally Good	426	(11)
Ludger Honnefelder
Lonergan and Aquinas: The Postmodern Problematic of Theology and Ethics	437	(20)
Frederick G. Lawrence
Contributors	457	(4)
Index	461