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Growing in Virtue - Aquinas on Habit (Paperback)
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Growing in Virtue - Aquinas on Habit (Paperback)
Series: Moral Traditions series
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Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical
and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of
how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the
virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on
attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly
analysis of what exactly these good habits are in which we grow.
Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in
virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Mattison offers a robust
account of habits, including what habits are, why they are needed,
and what they supply once possessed. He draws on Aquinas to
carefully delineate the commonalities and differences between
natural (acquired) virtues and graced (infused) virtues. Along the
way, Mattison discusses the distinction between disposition and
habit; the role of "custom" in virtue formation; the nature of
virtuous passions; the distinct contribution of the gifts of the
Holy Spirit to graced life; explanations for persistent activity
after the loss of virtue; and the possibility of coexistence of the
infused and acquired virtues in the same person. For readers
interested in virtue and morality from a philosophical perspective
and scholars of theological ethics and moral theology in
particular, Mattison offers compelling arguments from the work of
Aquinas explicitly connected to contemporary scholarship in
philosophical virtue ethics.
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