This collection surveys the tradition of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" from its thirteenth-century origins to the fifteenth century, concentrating on the conception of the moral and intellectual virtues in a ... This newly translated and streamlined compilation of the texts on prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance from the Summa Theologica II-II follows the question-and-answer format of the original while omitting almost all appeals to ... A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. Found inside – Page 168period, the most comprehensive consideration of the virtues from a ... people seeking to live virtuous lives in antiquity, namely the four cardinal virtues. "The Handbook of Virtue Ethics" brings together leading international scholars to provide an overview of the field. "An enlarged version of the Page-Barbour lectures ... delivered at the University of Virginia in the spring of 1962." Found inside"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. Found insidethe doctrine of the mean, by a detailed examination of the virtues. ... Plato (in the Republic) takes the four cardinal virtues recognised in his day—wisdom ... "These translations from the Latin works of Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, and Philip the Chancellor concentrate on the four cardinal virtues - prudence, justice, courage, and temperance - first identified by Plato as essential ... Found inside – Page 148Those of the soul, ko.6óg koi IIAótovu £60čev, are the four cardinal virtues which of course are internal too.4° Aristotle too (koi obtog, ... Andrew Kim discusses contemporary controversies surrounding abortion, contraception, labor rights, poverty, and war, and he places these issues in the context of the Catholic moral tradition. Table of Contents: FORTITUDE -- Introduction -- Readiness to fall in battle -- Fortitude must not trust itself -- Endurance and attack -- Vital, moral, mystic fortitude -- TEMPERANCE -- Selfless self-preservation -- Chastity and unchastity ... How do we get it back? Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual experiences with our empathy and intellect-an aim that Aristotle identified millennia ago. Found inside – Page 306Following Aristotle in Ethics 5.1, Wyclif asserts that all four cardinal virtues can be reduced to justice, since 'iusticia est omnis virtus, quia reddens ... Found inside – Page 40To recap , these are the main points of Aristotle's virtue theory ... later dubbed the theological virtues , in contrast to Plato's four cardinal virtues . Found inside – Page 47For Aristotle, happiness is "activity in accordance with virtue" (X.VIL 1177a). ... cardinal virtues of temperance, courage, justice, and wisdom and then ... Written around 380 BC, The Republic work is an important contribution to the age old question of how to best structure a society in a just way. The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Found inside – Page 133four characteristics, which together comprise the sine qua non of the good life. Aquinas's initial or “general” consideration of the four cardinal virtues ... The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, ... Found insideProfessor Giovanni Maio, the eloquent advocate of a new culture of medicine, poses fundamental questions in this book that no one can really avoid: Where are the promises of reproductive and transplantation medicine leading us? Discusses four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time. This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics. Found inside – Page 83The science of ethics instructs human beings about the four cardinal virtues, which are in Kilwardby's commentary interpreted to be civic virtues instituted ... Found inside – Page 441Other virtues emerged as subcategorizations of the four cardinal virtues. Aristotle rejected a point of departure in universal Ideas or Forms, ... Found inside – Page xli4. That the doctrine of the ' mean ' or middle term of moral action , in the examination of the several Virtues , in the ... for the consideration of others — I mean , the differentia between the Moral Virtues of Aristotle and the Cardinal Virtues of the ... Introduction and Commentary by Jeffrey Hause. The third volume of The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text. An incisive reassessment of eighteen classic human virtues--including mercy, justice, fidelity, courage, compassion, humility, and simplicity--draws on the timeless wisdom of philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Simone Weil to explain how ... The material in this book has been class tested. Every year I teach ethics to a minimum of seventy students. The eleven diagrams I have sprinkled throughout the chapters derive from diagrams I have used on a chalkboard in my classrooms. Found insideIn The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. This book discusses Aquinas's reception of Aristotle's work, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle's ethics. Found insideThis pioneering book will be invaluable to researchers and students concerned with the many contemporary varieties and applications of virtue ethics. This book explores recent developments in ethics of virtue. The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat. Found insideTaking as its starting point Aquinas's neglected definition of virtue in terms of its "causes," this book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life. " ... Difficulties are, however, by no means necessarily objections. Exploring the history of the cardinal virtues from patristic times to the late fourteenth century, this book offers a comprehensive view of the development of moral debate in the Latin Middle Ages. Copious footnotes treat matters of historical, philosophical, and theological interest to the contemporary reader making this book ideal for classroom use or individual study."--Publisher description. This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general. Found insideThis Element provides an account of Thomas Aquinas's moral philosophy that emphasizes the intrinsic connection between happiness and the human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason. This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. Found inside – Page 306Albert thought the Aristotelian virtues tonic virtues , it seemed right ... for “ Cicero says the four nature of such cardinal virtues in an attempt ... Found insideNow, amid a surge of interest in virtue ethics, J. Budziszewski clarifies and analyzes the text's challenging arguments about the moral, intellectual, and spiritual virtues, with a spotlight on the virtue of justice. Found inside – Page 64But Aristotle's classification of the virtues seems to give no special primacy to ... The Stoics, by contrast, treat the four cardinal virtues as generic ... Found insideThis book revisits, and sheds fresh light on, some key texts and debates in ancient philosophy. Found inside – Page 1889... on the four cardinal, or axial, virtues: prudence, temperance, fortitude, ... Aristotle hath devised,' reserving the 'polliticke vertues' to a sequel. 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