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Growing in virtue : Aquinas on habit / William C. Mattison III.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Moral traditions seriesPublisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: xi, 253 pagine ; 23 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9781647123284
  • 9781647123277
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 189.4 23
Other classification:
  • BQ 6917.M19 2023
Contents:
Habits : Second Nature Perfections of Personal Potential -- Habits and Dispositions -- Becoming Disposed : Nature and Nurture -- Attaining Properly Human Habits : Acquired Virtues -- Growing in Acquired Virtue -- Attaining Supernatural Habits : Infused Virtue -- Growing in Infused Virtue.
Summary: "This book provides a Thomistic account of growing in virtue. That account requires a precise explanation of what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. The book begins with a technical analysis of habit based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. That analysis supplies a foundation for the two central parts of the book. The author first offers an account on the attainment of and growth in acquired virtue, in dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy and addressing recent debates in moral theology. He then offers an account of the attainment of and growth in infused virtue, in a manner attentive to the continuities and discontinuities between natural and supernatural virtues. In conclusion, the book has two appendices, written in the genre of the Scholastic "disputed question," on the relationship between the acquired and infused virtues".
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Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Temporary Library BQ 6917.M19 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0030222037

Bibliografia: pagine 237-245.

Habits : Second Nature Perfections of Personal Potential -- Habits and Dispositions -- Becoming Disposed : Nature and Nurture -- Attaining Properly Human Habits : Acquired Virtues -- Growing in Acquired Virtue -- Attaining Supernatural Habits : Infused Virtue -- Growing in Infused Virtue.

"This book provides a Thomistic account of growing in virtue. That account requires a precise explanation of what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. The book begins with a technical analysis of habit based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. That analysis supplies a foundation for the two central parts of the book. The author first offers an account on the attainment of and growth in acquired virtue, in dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy and addressing recent debates in moral theology. He then offers an account of the attainment of and growth in infused virtue, in a manner attentive to the continuities and discontinuities between natural and supernatural virtues. In conclusion, the book has two appendices, written in the genre of the Scholastic "disputed question," on the relationship between the acquired and infused virtues".