Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest
works to the virtues and associated matters, yet despite the
availability of these vast texts and centuries of commentary,
Aquinas's virtue ethics remains mysterious, raising questions to
which satisfactory answers have not yet been given. In this book,
Pinsent argues that the key to understanding Aquinas's work is to
be found in an association between attributes he appends to the
virtues and certain interpersonal capacities revealed recently by
the scientific study of social cognition. This book shows that
Aquinas's approach to the virtues is radically non-Aristotelian and
founded on the concept of second person relatedness. To highlight
the explanatory power of this principle, Pinsent demonstrates how
the second person perspective provides a coherent interpretation of
Aquinas's descriptions of the virtues in general and offers a key
to long-standing problems, such as the reconciliation of
magnanimity and humility. The principle of second person
relatedness also provides a way to interpret those actus or
operationes that Aquinas describes as the fruition or realization
of the virtues.Pinsent concludes by considering how this approach
may help to shape future developments in virtue ethics.
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