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Pursuing the Honorable argues that our modern understanding of
honor, as seen through example of today's military training, is
deficient. To remedy this, the book returns to an understanding of
the honorable good, especially manifested for philosophers like
Aristotle and Cicero in a life of the human virtues. However,
because honor as defined by the honorable good needs to be
applicable to the 21st Century occidental world of liberal
democratic values, the study includes careful attention to those
conditions under which honor can once again become a live option.
While special attention is given to military training, including
concrete proposals for its renewal, what the study discovers
extends to many forms of human life
Throughout his writings, Thomas Aquinas exhibited a remarkable
stability of thought. However, in some areas such as his theology
of grace, his thought underwent titanic developments. In this book,
Justin M. Anderson traces both those developments in grace and
their causes. After introducing the various meanings of virtue
Aquinas utilized, including 'virtue in its fullest sense' and
various forms of 'qualified virtue', he explores the historical
context that conditioned that account. Through a close analysis of
his writings, Anderson unearths Aquinas's own discoveries and
analyses that would propel his understanding of human experience,
divine action, and supernatural grace in new directions. In the
end, we discover an account of virtue that is inextricably linked
to his developed understanding of sin, grace and divine action in
human life. As such, Anderson challenges the received understanding
of Aquinas's account of virtue, as well as his relationship to
contemporary virtue ethics.
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