Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues

This volume offers translations of a series of Aquinas's disputed questions on ethical topics.

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

9780521772259, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 June 2005

344 pages, 1 table
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.67 kg

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 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.

Disputed questions on the virtues
On the virtues in general
On charity
On brotherly correction
On hope
On the cardinal virtues.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [HPCB]