Bonnie Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Buridan on the Value of Emotions
Scholars agree that Buridan’s commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics gives far more attention to Seneca’s works than other commentaries of the period do. Buridan cites Seneca on one topic after another, always respectfully and often with praise. But did his study of Seneca lead him to a generally negative view about the role of emotions in morality? On this topic scholars clearly disagree. One claims that there are hardly any positive references to…
Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
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 moralit…
A ugustine's On the Good of Marriage and Infused Virtue in the Twelfth Century
In the history of ethics, it remains remains unclear how C hristians of the M iddle A ges came to see G od‐given virtues as dispositions ( habitus ) created in the human soul. Patristic works could surely support other conceptions of the virtues given by grace. For example, one might argue that all such virtues are forms of charity, so that they must be affections of the soul, or that they consist in what the soul does , not anything the soul has…
Evil in Later Medieval Philosophy
This essay presents a critical review of recent literature on evil in medieval philosophy, as understood by thinkers from Anselm of Canterbury onward. "Evil" is taken to include not only serious, deliberate wrongdoing, but also everyday sins done from ignorance or passion. Special attention is paid to Aquinas's De Malo, Giles of Rome and the aftermath of the 1277 Condemnation, scholarly disputes about Scotus's teachings, and commentaries on the N…
Aquinas and Weakness of Will
Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of him, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas rarely even mentions the weakness of the will, and he never invokes it to explain why someone a…
The moral life
From the dawn of the Middle Ages to their end, moral theorists struggled to explain what makes a person good by human standards, what it takes to merit happiness in the afterlife, and what, if anything, the two have to do with each other. Some inveighed against the worldly ethics of ancient philosophers; others praised the ancients for important moral insights. Yet every leading medieval thinker worked to develop an account of the moral life far …
Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
Book Review| January 01 2003 Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologia 1a 75-89 Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologia 1a 75-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 500. Bonnie Kent Bonnie Kent Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-1-103 Cite Ic…
Rethinking Moral Dispositions
Scotus’s teachings on moral virtue have attracted little attention, in part because there is no single text where he presents them systematically, in part because scholars tend to associate Scotus with the ethics of freedom and right reason. Even those sympathetic to his views report, with apparent regret, his move away from the virtue-centered Aristotelian model of ethics. This chapter attempts to explain the various roles that virtues do and do…
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. John Duns Scotus (1265/6–1308) was (along with Aquinas and…
Virtues of the Will
This study aims to provide a more balanced account of how Christian thinkers, including Aquinas, transformed Aristotle's psychology and ethics. It traces late 13th-century debate about the freedom of the will, moral weakness and other issues that helped change the course of Western ethics.
After MacIntyre
Preface. 1. Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue: John Horton and Susan Mendus (University of York). 2. Justice After Virtue: Charles Taylor. 3. Reclaiming the Aristotelian Ruler: Peter Johnson. 4. MacIntyre and Aquinas: Janet Coleman. 5. MacIntyrea s Thomist Revival: What Next?: John Haldane. 6. Projecting the Enlightenment: Robert Wokler. 7. MacIntyrea s Critique of Utilitarianism: Paul Kelly. 8. MacIntyre and Historicism: Robert Stern. 9. MacIntyr…
Moral Provincialism
Suppose that I stand firmly in what Alasdair MacIntyre describes as the Thomistic tradition of moral enquiry. I try my best to recover a historical understanding of Aquinas's teachings, and I refuse to let my philosophical opponents set the terms of debate. Now suppose that you yourself are one of my opponents: a Buddhist, a Jew, a Muslim or perhaps a secular humanist. (It makes no difference whether or not you believe in God, just so long as wha…
Transitory Vice
After MacIntyre
Preface. 1. Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue: John Horton and Susan Mendus (University of York). 2. Justice After Virtue: Charles Taylor. 3. Reclaiming the Aristotelian Ruler: Peter Johnson. 4. MacIntyre and Aquinas: Janet Coleman. 5. MacIntyrea s Thomist Revival: What Next?: John Haldane. 6. Projecting the Enlightenment: Robert Wokler. 7. MacIntyrea s Critique of Utilitarianism: Paul Kelly. 8. MacIntyre and Historicism: Robert Stern. 9. MacIntyr…
Transitory Vice
Moral Provincialism
Suppose that I stand firmly in what Alasdair MacIntyre describes as the Thomistic tradition of moral enquiry. I try my best to recover a historical understanding of Aquinas's teachings, and I refuse to let my philosophical opponents set the terms of debate. Now suppose that you yourself are one of my opponents: a Buddhist, a Jew, a Muslim or perhaps a secular humanist. (It makes no difference whether or not you believe in God, just so long as wha…
Virtues of the Will
This study aims to provide a more balanced account of how Christian thinkers, including Aquinas, transformed Aristotle's psychology and ethics. It traces late 13th-century debate about the freedom of the will, moral weakness and other issues that helped change the course of Western ethics.
After MacIntyre
Preface. 1. Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue: John Horton and Susan Mendus (University of York). 2. Justice After Virtue: Charles Taylor. 3. Reclaiming the Aristotelian Ruler: Peter Johnson. 4. MacIntyre and Aquinas: Janet Coleman. 5. MacIntyrea s Thomist Revival: What Next?: John Haldane. 6. Projecting the Enlightenment: Robert Wokler. 7. MacIntyrea s Critique of Utilitarianism: Paul Kelly. 8. MacIntyre and Historicism: Robert Stern. 9. MacIntyr…
Rethinking Moral Dispositions
Scotus’s teachings on moral virtue have attracted little attention, in part because there is no single text where he presents them systematically, in part because scholars tend to associate Scotus with the ethics of freedom and right reason. Even those sympathetic to his views report, with apparent regret, his move away from the virtue-centered Aristotelian model of ethics. This chapter attempts to explain the various roles that virtues do and do…
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. John Duns Scotus (1265/6–1308) was (along with Aquinas and…
The moral life
From the dawn of the Middle Ages to their end, moral theorists struggled to explain what makes a person good by human standards, what it takes to merit happiness in the afterlife, and what, if anything, the two have to do with each other. Some inveighed against the worldly ethics of ancient philosophers; others praised the ancients for important moral insights. Yet every leading medieval thinker worked to develop an account of the moral life far …
Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
Book Review| January 01 2003 Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologia 1a 75-89 Robert Pasnau, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologia 1a 75-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 500. Bonnie Kent Bonnie Kent Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-1-103 Cite Ic…
Evil in Later Medieval Philosophy
This essay presents a critical review of recent literature on evil in medieval philosophy, as understood by thinkers from Anselm of Canterbury onward. "Evil" is taken to include not only serious, deliberate wrongdoing, but also everyday sins done from ignorance or passion. Special attention is paid to Aquinas's De Malo, Giles of Rome and the aftermath of the 1277 Condemnation, scholarly disputes about Scotus's teachings, and commentaries on the N…
Aquinas and Weakness of Will
Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of him, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas rarely even mentions the weakness of the will, and he never invokes it to explain why someone a…
Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
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 moralit…
A ugustine's On the Good of Marriage and Infused Virtue in the Twelfth Century
In the history of ethics, it remains remains unclear how C hristians of the M iddle A ges came to see G od‐given virtues as dispositions ( habitus ) created in the human soul. Patristic works could surely support other conceptions of the virtues given by grace. For example, one might argue that all such virtues are forms of charity, so that they must be affections of the soul, or that they consist in what the soul does , not anything the soul has…
Buridan on the Value of Emotions
Scholars agree that Buridan’s commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics gives far more attention to Seneca’s works than other commentaries of the period do. Buridan cites Seneca on one topic after another, always respectfully and often with praise. But did his study of Seneca lead him to a generally negative view about the role of emotions in morality? On this topic scholars clearly disagree. One claims that there are hardly any positive references to…
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (9 works) · Theology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Law (3 works)