Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil: a Critical Guide

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This collection of specially commissioned new essays explores the philosophical issues and subjects of Aquinas's major work.

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Full title :Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil : a Critical Guide.

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This collection of specially commissioned new essays explores the philosophical issues and subjects of Aquinas's major work.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316464816, 1316464814, 9781107360167, 1107360161
oclc:ocn935912539
LC Classification:BJ1400.T483
Dewey Decimal:111/.84

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- The origin of QDM -- The unity and diffusion of QDM -- The approach of this volume -- 1 Metaphysical themes in De malo, 1 -- Metaphysical presuppositions -- Evil as privation -- Kinds of evil -- The cause of evil -- Concluding remarks -- 2 Weakness and willful wrongdoing in Aquinas's De malo -- Sins of weakness -- Adultery in the heart -- Willful wrongdoing -- Sins from vice -- Sins against the Holy Spirit.

Why two stories? -- Conclusion -- 3 Free choice -- Sourcehood and the ability to do otherwise -- The psychology of free choice -- The compatibility question -- Angelic free choice -- Conclusion -- 4 Venial sin and the ultimate end -- Habitual, virtual, and actual orders -- The will and the good -- Defective reasoning -- Conclusion -- 5 The promise and pitfalls of glory: Aquinas on the forgotten vice of vainglory -- Varieties of vainglory -- The goodness of glory -- Roots and fruits of vainglory -- A virtuous circle -- Offspring vices -- Remedial practices -- Humility, magnanimity, and celebr…