Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Tobias Hoffmann;Jörn Müller;Matthias Perkams;  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781316895542

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107002678

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781107002678

Subject: B503.21 Thomas Thomas, Aquinas, 1225 - 1274)

Keyword: 世界哲学

Language: ENG

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This book discusses Aquinas's reception of Aristotle's work, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle's ethics. This book addresses the complex relation between Aquinas's moral thought and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle's work. The book will be of interest to students in moral philosophy, Aquinas, and those studying the history of philosophy and the history of theology. This book addresses the complex relation between Aquinas's moral thought and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle's work. The book will be of interest to students in moral philosophy, Aquinas, and those studying the history of philosophy and the history of theology. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who

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