Aquinas, ethics, and philosophy of religion : metaphysics and practice

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Aquinas, ethics, and philosophy of religion : metaphysics and practice

Thomas Hibbs

(Indiana series in the philosophy of religion)

Indiana University Press, c2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index

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In Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, Thomas Hibbs recovers the notion of practice to develop a more descriptive account of human action and knowing, grounded in the venerable vocabulary of virtue and vice. Drawing on Aquinas, who believed that all good works originate from virtue, Hibbs postulates how epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and theology combine into a set of contemporary philosophical practices that remain open to metaphysics. Hibbs brings Aquinas into conversation with analytic and Continental philosophy and suggests how a more nuanced appreciation of his thought enriches contemporary debates. This book offers readers a new appreciation of Aquinas and articulates a metaphysics integrally related to ethical practice.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface: Metaphysics and Practice Acknowledgments 1. Ethics as a Guide into Metaphysics 2. Virtue and Practice 3. Self-Implicating Knowledge: The Practice of Intellectual Virtue 4. Dependent Animal Rationality: Epistemology as Anthropology 5. Metaphysics and/as Practice 6. Metaphysics, Theology, and the Practice of Naming God 7. The Presence of a Hidden God: Idolatry, Metaphysics, and Forms of Life 8. Portraits of the Artist: Eros, Metaphysics, and Beauty 9. Metaphysics of Contingency, Divine Artistry of Hope Notes Bibliography Index

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