In gentle of present curiosity within the considered St. Thomas Aquinas, rediscovery of the paintings of John Capreolus (1380-1444) is very very important. identified to the Renaissance theologians who succeeded him as "prince of Thomists," he confirmed a method of Thomistic theological and philosophical engagement that has set the trend for Thomistic thinkers after him. Twentieth-century scholarship on Capreolus tended to target questions bearing on metaphysics, the individual, and the beatific imaginative and prescient. the aim of the current translation of his questions about the virtues is to carry to the fore one other element of his suggestion, his theological ethics.
Capreolus's nice paintings, his Arguments in security of the Theology of St. Thomas, constitutes an important juncture within the background of Western theology. in a single admire it really is an workout within the conventional style of question-commentaries on Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences, a twelfth-century paintings that have been the authentic textbook of theology on the college of Paris. In Capreolus's palms, notwithstanding, the layout of the conventional Sentences remark itself turns into a pretext for reaching a objective extra unique than that of any previous commentator on Lombard's paintings, specifically to safeguard the concept of Aquinas opposed to his overdue 13th- and early fourteenth-century adversaries, together with John Duns Scotus, Durandus of St. Pourçain, and Peter Aureole.
The choice from Capreolus's paintings represented during this translation exhibits him protecting Aquinas's conclusions on religion, wish, charity, the presents of the Holy Spirit, and the virtues opposed to such adversaries. With a spirit of generosity in citation, Capreolus shall we every one adversary have his say, however the consequence of the disputes isn't in query, as Capreolus on each one element leads the reader in the direction of a view of the prevalence of the Thomistic position.
in regards to the AUTHOR:
Kevin White is affiliate professor of philosophy on the Catholic college of the USA and editor of Hispanic Philosophy within the Age of Discovery. He has edited texts through Aquinas and Peter of Auvergne and has released articles at the considered Aquinas.
Romanus Cessario, O.P., is professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. as well as various articles and studies, Cessario has authored, coauthored, or edited numerous books, together with The ethical Virtues and Theological Ethics and Introduction to ethical Theology (forthcoming, CUA Press).
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
"This translation may be of worth not just to these drawn to the historical past of Thomism, Thomistic ethical concept, and medieval texts on ethics, but in addition to these intrigued via present debates approximately freedom and legal responsibility in advantage ethics."―Joseph Koterski, S.J., foreign Philosophical Quarterly
"[This publication] can be welcomed by means of all who're drawn to the present renewal of virtue-based morality. The translators have succeeded admirably in placing Capreolus's textual content into exact and readable English."―Michael J. Dodds, O.P., Theological Studies
"At a time of accelerating curiosity in virtues ordinarily, and in St. Thomas' therapy of virtues particularly, this publication is a call for participation to deep and substantial mirrored image at the fact of the virtues within the ethical and non secular lifestyles. . . . White and Cessario have translated Capreolus into positive and lucid English. they've got no longer compromised the precision and consistency of the unique and feature still produced an exceptional paintings in English. Capreolus has very priceless translators and English-speaking students may be thankful indeed. at the Virtues is a piece of excessive scholasticism. . . . when you have given research to advantage, who've learn Aquinas, and want to imagine but extra deeply approximately advantage with precision and contrast, who desire to input right into a longstanding, and ric
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