Aquinas on Human Action
Author | : Ralph McInerny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ralph McInerny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Michael Osborne |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813221781 |
This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author | : John Michael Rziha |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0813216729 |
During the last few centuries, a practical dichotomy between God and humans has developed within moral theory. As a result, moral theory tends to focus only on humans where human autonomy is foundational or only on God where divine commands capriciously rule. However, the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas overcomes this dichotomy. For Thomas, humans reach their perfection by participating in God's wisdom and love. Perfecting Human Actions explores the ways humans participate in eternal law--God's wisdom that guides and moves all things to their proper action. The book begins with a thoughtful examination of the philosophic recovery of the notion of participation in Thomistic metaphysics. It then explains Thomas's theological understanding of the notion of participation to show how humans are related to God. It is discovered that when performing human actions, humans participate in the eternal law in two ways: as moved and governed by it, and cognitively. In reference to participation as moved and governed, humans are directed by God to their proper end of eternal happiness. This mode of participation can be increased by perfecting the natural inclinations through virtue, grace, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In reference to cognitive participation, humans as rational creatures can know their proper end and how to attain it. Through this knowledge of moral truths, the intellect participates in the eternal law. Cognitive participation is perfected by the intellectual virtues (especially faith) and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (especially wisdom). The book concludes by showing how the notion of human participation in the eternal law is a much better foundation for moral theory than the contemporary notion of autonomy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Rziha is associate professor of theology at Benedictine College. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: " A] competent and indeed masterful study. . . . Rziha's book is to be welcomed as not just an important, but indeed an overdue contribution to the contemporary recovery of Aquinas's moral theory. More importantly, this study is of surpassing importance in advancing the correct understanding of the relationship between human freedom and natural law. . . . Rziha's lucidly written and well-documented study displays all the characteristics of a competent and learned interpretation of the thought of the doctor communis according to the highest standards of current Aquinas scholarship."--Reinhard Hutter, Thomist "Rziha explores at length the two modes by which human participate in God's eternal law: as moved and governed by it and as having knowledge of it. . . . T]his book proves to be something of a comprehensive course in Thomistic thought. This project is supported by extensive and meticulous footnote reverences to texts of Aquinas." --Janine Marie Idziak, Speculum
Author | : Can Laurens Löwe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108833640 |
This book argues that, for Aquinas, a human act exhibits a structure analogous to that of a material object.
Author | : Joseph P. Wawrykow |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1996-01-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 026809683X |
Offering a fresh approach to one significant aspect of the soteriology of Thomas Aquinas, God's Grace and Human Action brings new scholarship and insights to the issue of merit in Aquinas's theology. Through a careful historical analysis, Joseph P. Wawrykow delineates the precise function of merit in Aquinas's account of salvation. Wawrykow accounts for the changes in Thomas's teaching on merit from the early Scriptum on the Sentences of Peter Lombard to the later Summa theologiae in two ways. First, he demonstrates how the teaching of the Summa theologiae discloses the impact of Thomas's profound encounter with the later writings of Augustine on predestination and grace. Second, Wawrykow notes the implications of Thomas's mature theological judgment that merit is best understood in the context of the plan of divine wisdom. The portrayal of merit in sapiential terms in the Summa permits Thomas to insist that the attainment of salvation through merit testifies not only to the dignity of the human person but even more to the goodness of God.
Author | : Joseph Pilsner |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191608696 |
Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions have species, such as theft or almsgiving. A problem arises, however, concerning his teaching on how such moral kinds are determined. Aquinas uses five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance, and motive - to identify what gives species to human actions. Although similarities in meaning can be discerned between certain of these terms, apparent differences between others make it difficult to grasp how all five could refer to what specifies human actions. Joseph Pilsner examines and compares Aquinas's understanding of these five terms to see if a consistent account of his teaching on specification can be proposed.
Author | : Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This work places Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context in a way that makes Aquinas accessible to students and interested general readers.
Author | : Robert Pasnau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521001892 |
A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.
Author | : Stephen Brock |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813234255 |
"Both Thomistic scholars and analytic philosophers interested in theories of human action and accountability will find this book a welcome addition to their libraries. Truly a substantive addition to both Thomistic scholarship and the ongoing analytic investigation into human action and responsible agency."—American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly "A first-rate book...Brock's lucid and illuminating analysis offers much of value to both intellectual historians and theologians, as well as philosophers."—Theological Studies"Brock's treatment of Aquinas's account of action exhibits a rare combination of rigor and learning. It is, no doubt, the best we have."—The Thomist
Author | : Tobias Hoffmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2013-07-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107276403 |
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 morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.