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Aquinas on the Emotions - A Religious-Ethical Inquiry (Paperback)
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Aquinas on the Emotions - A Religious-Ethical Inquiry (Paperback)
Series: Moral Traditions series
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All of us want to live happily and live well. Sometimes that
happens; sometimes it does not. Why? Why do our emotions swing as
they do, making us joyous or brooding or, more typically, somewhere
in between? In this book Diana Cates explores the influence of our
emotions on our lives, particularly as they relate to our sense of
religion and morality. In doing so she demonstrates how Thomas
Aquinas' theory of emotions can help us better understand what is
at stake. Cates, an ethicist, attempts to show how emotions are
composed as mental states; identify the ways in which religious
beliefs, intuitions, images, and questions can affect the formation
and the course of a person's emotions; and show how Aquinas can
instruct readers on the quality of their own emotional lives. She
begins by examining the meaning of religious ethics, then discusses
what religious ethics can teach us about the relationship between
religion and the emotions. In the shank of the book Cates digs deep
into the work of Aquinas, retrieving and explicating, demonstrating
his approach to emotions and interpreting his work in light of
recent studies of emotion from philosophical and ethical sources.
The final chapter synthesizes some of the most compelling features
of Aquinas' account, highlighting the practical ethical benefits of
studying Aquinas on emotions. Such a study challenges us to become
more aware of and articulate about understanding the nature of
reality--and the ways in which our emotions are tied to that quest.
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