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Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues (Hardcover)
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Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues (Hardcover)
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This study locates Aquinas's theory of infused and acquired virtue
in his foundational understanding of nature and grace. Aquinas
holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with
the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle,
that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our
own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand
the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of
grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this
important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination
of Aquinas's theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention
to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are
related. Part 1 examines Aquinas's own explicit remarks about the
infused and acquired virtues and considers whether and to what
extent a coherent "theory" of the relationship between the infused
and acquired virtues can be found in Aquinas. Knobel argues that
while Aquinas says almost nothing about how the infused and
acquired virtues are related, he clearly does believe that the
"structure" of the infused virtues mirrors that of the acquired in
important ways. Part 2 uses that structure to evaluate existing
interpretations of Aquinas and argues that no existing account
adequately captures Aquinas's most fundamental commitments. Knobel
ultimately argues that the correct account lies somewhere between
the two most commonly advocated theories. Written primarily for
students and scholars of moral philosophy and theology, the book
will also appeal to readers interested in understanding Aquinas's
theory of virtue.
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