Thomas Aquinas on Virtue

A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

Thomas M. Osborne Jr (Author)

9781316511749, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 June 2022

250 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.5 kg

Thomas Aquinas produced a voluminous body of work on moral theory, and much of that work is on virtue, particularly the status and value of the virtues as principles of virtuous acts, and the way in which a moral life can be organized around them schematically. Thomas Osborne presents Aquinas's account of virtue in its historical, philosophical and theological contexts, to show the reader what Aquinas himself wished to teach about virtue. His discussion makes the complexities of Aquinas's moral thought accessible to readers despite the differences between Thomas's texts themselves, and the distance between our background assumptions and his. The book will be valuable for scholars and students in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

Introduction
1. The Definition of Virtue
2. Intellectual and Moral Virtue
3. Divisions of Moral Virtue
4. Natural and Supernatural Virtue
5. The Properties of Virtue
6. Thomistic Virtue and Contemporary Thought
Conclusion.

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