Virtues and Vices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23197259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Porter (0000-0002-8636-1346, Theology, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 265-275 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford handbook of Aquinas (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195326093.013.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W2727528378 |
| ISBN | 9780195326093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 114 |
The concept of virtue has a central role in Aquinas's thought. Aquinas's moral theology incorporates both a general theory of virtue, and extensive consideration of the ideals and precepts proper to particular virtues. According to Aquinas, actuality is the fundamental characteristic of any kind of existence, which implies that every actually existing thing is in act and can be said to be perfect insofar as it is fully in act. Perfection is understood, correlatively, as the fullest possible development and expression of the creature's dispositions and capacities, in accordance with the intelligible causal powers and inclinations. Aquinas acknowledged that one can legitimately regard the traditional cardinal virtues as general qualities of every praiseworthy action, but he argued that these are distinct virtues, corresponding to the distinct faculties of the soul. Aquinas interpreted the kinds of actions traditionally associated with particular virtues in such a way as to display these as perfections of specific faculties, and exemplifications of general ideals of praiseworthy behavior. The passions, which are naturally oriented toward what is perceived as desirable and away from what is perceived as noxious through the senses, are shaped through reason in such a way as to aim towards the overall good of the person through virtues of temperance and fortitude.
Action (physics) · Epistemology · Passions · Perfection · Physics · Soul · Virtue · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Three philosophers
"First the bow is bent in study-- "
History of Italian Philosophy
Warranted Christian Belief
Aquinas
Emotions
By Knowledge and by Love
Aquinas's Parasitic Cosmological Argument
Thomas von Aquin
The Five Ways and the Oneness of God
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
Object and Intention in Moral Judgments According to Aquinas
Eternal Knowledge of the Temporal in Aquinas
The Light of thy Countenance: Science and Knowledge of God in the Thirteenth Century
The Act of Faith According to St. Thomas
Late Medieval Ontologies of Facts
Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes
“Subject,” “Substance,” and “Accident” in St. Thomas
Conscience in Medieval Philosophy
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes
Intentionality in Aquinas’s Theory of Emotions
Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
The Background of Aquinas’ Synderesis Principle
The religious aspect of philosophy
Theory of knowledge
The Moral Status of the First Principle of Practical Reason in Thomas’s Natural-Law Theory
Did Aquinas Change his Mind about the Will?
Aquinas and the Human Desire for Knowledge
Revisiting Affective Knowledge and Connaturality in Aquinas
Why Constitution is Not Identity
After Aquinas
The Originality of St. Thomas’s Position on the Philosophers and Creation
A Single Ultimate End Only for “Fully Rational” Agents? A Critique of Scott Macdonald’s Interpretation of Aquinas
Aquinas on the Function of Moral Virtue
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
Thomas von Aquin: Die Summa theologiae
Properties, Causality and Epistemological Optimism in Thomas Aquinas
From Describing to Naming God
Thomas Aquinas on What Philosophers Can Know About God
Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas
Sialylation as an Important Regulator of Antibody Function
The Alleged Aristotelianism of Thomas Aquinas (1990)
Christ as Composite according to Aquinas
Divine Causation and Human Freedom in Aquinas
God’s Knowledge of Future Contingents
Thomas Aquinas on the Passions
Aquinas’s Fourth Way and the Approximating Relation
Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas
Über Die Erkenntnis Erster, Allgemeiner Prinzipien Nach Thomas Von Aquin
Aquinas on Voluntary Beliefs
Uses of the Person-Nature Distinction in Thomas's Christology
Aquinas’s Abstractionism
Science and certainty
The Structures of Practical Reason
Why Philosophy Abides for Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas on human action
Free Choice and Free Judgment in Thomas Aquinas
The Problem of the Rational Soul in the Thirteenth Century
Who Read Thomas Aquinas? (1991)
The Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas
Warranted Christian Belief
The Hidden Heritage
Theology and philosophy
Resurrection, Reassembly, and Reconstitution
The Five Ways
Perfect and Imperfect Virtues in Aquinas
The Discussions of the Scientific Status of Theology in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century
Aquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect
Aquinas on Intellectual Representation
Norman Kretzmann on Aquinas's attribution of will and of freedom to create to God
The Analysis of Faith in St Thomas Aquinas
The Basic Principles of Natural Law
Natural Law and Practical Reason
Aquinas on Attachment, Envy, and Hatred in the Summa Theologica
Aquinas's Replication of the Acquired Moral Virtues
On the Alleged Causeless Beginning of the Universe
The Problem of Evil, The Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence
The Inductive Argument From Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition
Theoria versus Poesis
La Configuracion De La Ciencia Teologica
The changing role ofentia rationis in mediaeval semantics and ontology
The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters
Ultimate Ends in Practical Reasoning
Aquinas on Mental Representation
Can Everything Come to Be Without a Cause
Aristotelianism and the Origins of "Political Science" in the Twelfth Century
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |