Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues

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

• ISBN13: 9780521776615
• ISBN10: 0521776619
• Format: Paperback
• 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 academic debates on ethical topics. This volume offers new translations of disputed questions on the nature of virtue. The introduction explains how Aquinas' theory of virtue fits into his conception of ethics as a whole, and clarifies Aquinas's views by explaining the institutional and intellectual context in which the 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