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  • Chapter 3 - Divisions of Moral Virtue

  • Thomas M. Osborne Jr, University of St Thomas, Houston
  • Book:
    Thomas Aquinas on Virtue
    Published online:
    09 June 2022
    Print publication:
    23 June 2022, pp 82-124

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 considers the various divisions of moral virtue. This chapter describes Thomas’s response to the Stoic thesis that the virtuous person lacks passions. Aristotle states that some moral virtues are about the passions. The chapter ends with a discussion of the Neoplatonic thesis that there are different kinds or stages of virtue that lead to contemplation.

Thomas Aquinas on Virtue
  • Thomas M. Osborne Jr
  • Published online:
    09 June 2022
    Print publication:
    23 June 2022
  • Thomas Aquinas produced a voluminous body of work on moral theory, and much of that work is on virtue, particularly the status and value of the virtues as principles of virtuous acts, and the way in which a moral life can be organized around them schematically. Thomas Osborne presents Aquinas's account of virtue in its historical, philosophical and theological contexts, to show the reader what Aquinas himself wished to teach about virtue. His discussion makes the complexities of Aquinas's moral thought accessible to readers despite the differences between Thomas's texts themselves, and the distance between our background assumptions and his. The book will be valuable for scholars and students in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.