Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues

by Thomas Aquinas , Edited and translated by E. M. Atkins , Edited by Thomas Williams

• ISBN13: 9780521772259
• ISBN10: 0521772257
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was Dominican regent master in theology at the University of Paris, where he presided over a series of questions - academic debates - on ethical topics. This volume offers new translations of disputed questions on the nature of virtues in general, the fundamental or 'cardinal' virtues of practical wisdom, justice, courage, and temperateness, the divinely bestowed virtues of hope and charity, and the practical question of how, when and why one should rebuke a 'brother' for wrongdoing. The introduction explains how Aquinas's theory of virtue fits into his ethics as a whole, and it illuminates Aquinas's views by explaining the institutional and intellectual context in which these disputed questions were debated.

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Introduction	ix
Chronology	xxxi
Further reading	xxxiii
Translator's note on the text	xxxvi
List of abbreviations	xxxvii
Disputed Questions on the Virtues
On the Virtues in General: thirteen articles	3	(102)
On Charity: thirteen articles	105	(90)
On Brotherly Correction: two articles	195	(22)
On Hope: four articles	217	(24)
On the Cardinal Virtues: four articles	241	(37)
Terminology	278	(1)
Glossary	278	(5)
Table of parallel questions	283	(2)
Index of scriptural citations	285	(4)
Index of non-scriptural citations	289	(7)
Index of names and subjects	296