Aquinas on the Emotions - A Religious-Ethical Inquiry

Informationen zum Autor Diana Fritz Cates is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Choosing to Feel: Virtue! Friendship! and Compassion for Friends and coeditor of Medicine and the Ethics of Care. Klappentext Shows how emotions are composed as embodied mental states. This book identifies various factors! including religious beliefs! intuitions! images! and questions that can affect the formation and the course of a person's emotions. Zusammenfassung Shows how emotions are composed as embodied mental states. This book identifies various factors! including religious beliefs! intuitions! images! and questions that can affect the formation and the course of a person's emotions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Religious Ethics 2.Religious Ethics and the Study of Emotion 3. Approaching Aquinas on the Emotions (I) 4. Approaching Aquinas on the Emotion (II) 5. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Below (I) 6. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Below (II) 7. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Above (I) 8. Approaching the Human Sensory Appetite from Above (II) 9. The Formation of Distinctively Human Emotions 10. The Religious-Ethical Study of Emotion Appendix: Aquinas on the Powers of Capabilities of a Human Being (Relevant Selections) Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Diana Fritz Cates, Diana Fritz (University of Iowa) Cates, Cates Diana Fritz
• Assisted by: James F. Keenan (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9781589015050
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-505-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Moral Traditions Series; Moral Traditions series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Ethics, Religious ethics, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic / General