Second-Person Perspective in Aquinass Ethics - Virtues and Gifts

This book advocates a new understanding of Aquinas's virtue ethics, based not on the ideals of classical antiquity articulated by Aristotle, but on situations involving an irreducible "I-you" relationship. This understanding promotes a shift in the explanation of character development from the first person to second-person relatedness.

List of contents

1. The Mystery of Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics 2. The Gifts as Second-Personal Dispositions 3. Virtues and the Second-Person Perspective 4. The Fruition of the Virtues and Gifts 5. Conclusions and Implications

About the author

Andrew Pinsent is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford.

Summary

This book advocates a new understanding of Aquinas’s virtue ethics, based not on the ideals of classical antiquity articulated by Aristotle, but on situations involving an irreducible "I-you" relationship. This understanding promotes a shift in the explanation of character development from the first person to second-person relatedness.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Pinsent
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2013
• EAN: 9780415736176
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73617-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Christianity, Ethics & moral philosophy, Medieval History, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, History and Archaeology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy