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On the Virtues (Hardcover)
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On the Virtues (Hardcover)
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In light of current interest in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas,
rediscovery of the work of John Capreolus (1380-1444) is
particularly important. Known to the Renaissance theologians who
succeeded him as ""prince of Thomists,"" he established a mode of
Thomistic theological and philosophical engagement that has set the
pattern for Thomistic thinkers after him. Twentieth-century
scholarship on Capreolus tended to focus on questions concerning
metaphysics, the person, and the beatific vision. The purpose of
the present translation of his questions on the virtues is to bring
to the fore another aspect of his thought, his theological ethics.
Capreolus's great work, his Arguments in Defense of the Theology of
St. Thomas, constitutes a significant juncture in the history of
Western theology. In one respect it is an exercise in the
traditional genre of question-commentaries on Peter Lombard's Book
of Sentences, a twelfth-century work that had been the official
textbook of theology at the University of Paris. In Capreolus's
hands, however, the format of the traditional Sentences commentary
itself becomes a pretext for accomplishing a purpose more original
than that of any preceding commentator on Lombard's work, namely to
defend the thought of Aquinas against his late thirteenth- and
early fourteenth-century adversaries, including John Duns Scotus,
Durandus of St. Pourcain, and Peter Aureole. The selection from
Capreolus's work represented in this translation shows him
defending Aquinas's conclusions on faith, hope, charity, the gifts
of the Holy Spirit, and the virtues against such adversaries. With
a spirit of generosity in quotation, Capreolus lets each adversary
have his say, but the outcome of the disputes is never in question,
as Capreolus on each point leads the reader towards a view of the
superiority of the Thomistic position.
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