Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues - Disputed Questions on the Virtues

Informationen zum Autor E. M. Atkins has translated Cicero's On Duties and Augustine's Political Writings for Cambridge University Press. Thomas Williams has published widely on medieval philosophy and is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus. Klappentext A new translation of a series of Aquinas's disputed questions on ethical topics. Zusammenfassung Aquinas was Dominican regent master in theology at the University of Paris! where he presided over a series of questions - academic debates - on ethical topics. This volume offers translations of disputed questions and an introduction that explains how Aquinas's theory of virtue fits into his ethics as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Disputed questions on the virtues; On the virtues in general; On charity; On brotherly correction; On hope; On the cardinal virtues.

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E. M. Atkins has translated Cicero's On Duties and Augustine's Political Writings for Cambridge University Press.Thomas Williams has published widely on medieval philosophy and is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus.

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• Authors: Aquinas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas von Aquin
• Assisted by: E. M. Atkins (Editor), Thomas Williams (Editor), E. M. Atkins (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780521776615
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77661-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy