Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues: Edited and Explained for Everyone - Softcover

Kaczor, Christopher

9781932589511: Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues: Edited and Explained for Everyone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932589511 ISBN 13: 9781932589511

Publisher: Sapientia Press Ave Maria Univ, 2009

Arranged for beginners, Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues contains select passages from the treatment of justice, temperance, courage, and practical wisdom found in Thomas's Summa theologiae. Copious footnotes treat matters of historical, philosophical, and theological interest to the contemporary reader making this book ideal for classroom use or individual study.

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About the Author:

Christopher Kaczor holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. A Fulbright Scholar, he is the author of How to Stay Catholic in College, Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love, Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition, The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics, and Life Issues, Medical Choices (with Janet E. Smith). Fr. Thomas Sherman, S.J. holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and is former Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of scholarly articles on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle as well as on the intersection of Western and Eastern philosophy.

Review:

I think the authors of this book, Christopher Kaczor and Father Thomas Sherman, were inspired when they hit upon the idea of providing a summary of the cardinal virtues such as this. Here you will find a discussion of the virtue needed to make right judgments about the good, the virtue of prudence. You will find discussion of the two virtues that enable us to act well despite the tug of our emotions, the virtues of temperance and courage. Finally, the virtue of justice deals with the fact that we are members of communities, the family, the city, and not isolated and autonomous individuals. Christopher Kaczor and Father Sherman have put us all in their debt. The idea for this book was a great one; its execution is marvelous. The rest is up to the reader. --Ralph McInerny

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