Thomas Aquinas on Gratitude to God

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

A comparative study on Molla Sadra and Aquinas` ways of proving God

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The Concept of Vice and Its Relation to Sin from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi

This article tries to study comparatively the two concepts of vice and guilt and their relationship to each other in a descriptive-analytical method and based on the main works of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi. For Aquinas and Naraghi, vice is the opposite of virtue. From an anthropological point of view, the concept of "vice"  indicates a kind of inner and spiritual immaturity of man...

On Kenny on Aquinas on Being : A Critical Review of Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny

Gyula Klima, Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind (New York: Routledge, 1995) in Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998) 113–17. In this essay I will only deal with Kenny’s charges against Aquinas’s doctrine that directly concern Aquinas’s doctrine of being, namely, the charge of his failure to distinguish “specifi c existence” from “individual being” à la Frege, and the charges against Aquinas’s doctrin...