Growing in virtue : Aquinas on habit / William C. Mattison III

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Moral traditionsPublisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2023Description: 253 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781647123277
  • 9781647123284
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Growing in virtue
Contents:
Habits : Second Nature Perfections of Personal Potential -- Habits and Dispositions -- Becoming Disposed : Nature and Nurture -- Attaining Properly Human Habits : Acquired Virtues -- Growing in Acquired Virtue -- Attaining Supernatural Habits : Infused Virtue -- Growing in Infused Virtue
Summary: "This book provides a Thomistic account of growing in virtue. That account requires a precise explanation of what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. The book begins with a technical analysis of habit based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. That analysis supplies a foundation for the two central parts of the book. The author first offers an account on the attainment of and growth in acquired virtue, in dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy and addressing recent debates in moral theology. He then offers an account of the attainment of and growth in infused virtue, in a manner attentive to the continuities and discontinuities between natural and supernatural virtues. In conclusion, the book has two appendices, written in the genre of the Scholastic "disputed question," on the relationship between the acquired and infused virtues"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Habits : Second Nature Perfections of Personal Potential -- Habits and Dispositions -- Becoming Disposed : Nature and Nurture -- Attaining Properly Human Habits : Acquired Virtues -- Growing in Acquired Virtue -- Attaining Supernatural Habits : Infused Virtue -- Growing in Infused Virtue

"This book provides a Thomistic account of growing in virtue. That account requires a precise explanation of what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. The book begins with a technical analysis of habit based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. That analysis supplies a foundation for the two central parts of the book. The author first offers an account on the attainment of and growth in acquired virtue, in dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy and addressing recent debates in moral theology. He then offers an account of the attainment of and growth in infused virtue, in a manner attentive to the continuities and discontinuities between natural and supernatural virtues. In conclusion, the book has two appendices, written in the genre of the Scholastic "disputed question," on the relationship between the acquired and infused virtues"-- Provided by publisher.

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