Depositum Gladius non Debet Restitui Furioso: Precepts, Synderesis, and Virtues in Saint Thomas Aquinas

Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society

aquinas "defends" aristotle in that intellectual virtues need the direction of moral virtues

terence irwin argues that aquinas answered a question that aristotle had raised but had not answered. the question is if there is any relation between intellectual virtues and moral virtues. the answer is yes, moral virtues direct intellectual virtues to attain the final end. moral virtues show in what areas one should think, how much other things should be attended to, and how much one should ...

Hermeneutic and Teleology in Ethics across Denominations—Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth

This study arises from the context of current debates in the Catholic Church on the place of rule and law in moral reasoning. I suggest that ethics may be best served by approaches that place the human subject in a teleogical context and that recognise the need for interpretation of circumstances surrounding actions to be evaluated. This is in contrast to normative rule approaches. The insights...

Norm, Virtue and Information: the Just Price and Individual Behaviour in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae

Question 77 of the Summa Theologiae (IIa-IIae) contains the crux of the analysis Thomas Aquinas devotes to the just price 1. The expression itself (justum pretium) however appears only rarely in these passages 2, and a cursory reading might lead one to conclude only too readily that the object of these few pages is to be found elsewhere. In some respects, such a spontaneous reading would be a f...