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Virtue's Splendor - Wisdom, Prudence, and the Human Good (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Virtue's Splendor - Wisdom, Prudence, and the Human Good (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology
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In recent years, there has been a remarkable resurgence of interest
in classical conceptions of what it means for human beings to lead
a good life. Although the primary focus of the return to classical
thought has been Aristotle’s account of virtue, the ethics of
Aquinas has also received much attention. Our understanding of the
integrity of Aquinas’s thought has clearly benefited from the
recovery of the ethics of virtue. Understood from either a natural
or a supernatural perspective, the good life according to Aquinas
involves the exercise not just of the moral virtues, but also of
the intellectual virtues. Following Aristotle, Aquinas divides the
intellectual virtues into the practical, which have either doing
(prudence) or making (art) as an end, and the theoretical or
speculative, which are ordered to knowing for its own sake
(understanding, knowledge, and wisdom). One of the intellectual
virtues, namely, prudence has received much recent attention. With
few exceptions, however, contemporary discussions of Aquinas ignore
the complex and nuanced relationships among, and comparisons
between, the different sorts of intellectual virtue. Even more
striking is the general neglect of the speculative, intellectual
virtues and the role of contemplation in the good life. In
Virtue’s Splendor Professor Hibbs seeks to overcome this neglect,
approaching the ethical thought of Thomas Aquinas in terms of the
great debate of antiquity and the Middle Ages concerning the
rivalry between the active and the contemplative lives, between
prudence and wisdom as virtues perfective of human nature. In doing
so, he puts before the reader the breadth of Aquinas’s vision of
the good life.
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