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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hibbs Klappentext In Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, Thomas Hibbs recovers the notion of practice to develop a more descriptive account of human action and knowing, grounded in the venerable vocabulary of virtue and vice. Drawing on Aquinas, who believed that all good works originate from virtue, Hibbs postulates how epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and theology combine into a set of contemporary philosophical practices that remain open to metaphysics. Hibbs brings Aquinas into conversation with analytic and Continental philosophy and suggests how a more nuanced appreciation of his thought enriches contemporary debates. This book offers readers a new appreciation of Aquinas and articulates a metaphysics integrally related to ethical practice. Zusammenfassung This book offers readers a new appreciation of Aquinas and articulates a metaphysics integrally related to ethical practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface: Metaphysics and Practice Acknowledgments 1. Ethics as a Guide into Metaphysics 2. Virtue and Practice 3. Self-Implicating Knowledge: The Practice of Intellectual Virtue 4. Dependent Animal Rationality: Epistemology as Anthropology 5. Metaphysics and/as Practice 6. Metaphysics, Theology, and the Practice of Naming God 7. The Presence of a Hidden God: Idolatry, Metaphysics, and Forms of Life 8. Portraits of the Artist: Eros, Metaphysics, and Beauty 9. Metaphysics of Contingency, Divine Artistry of Hope Notes Bibliography Index
