The sweet delight of virtue and grace in Aquinas's ethics

International Journal of Systematic Theology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 52-71

  Oliver, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61149297361     PISSN: 14631652     EISSN: 14682400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2005.00151.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. For a discussion of the Neoplatonic as well as Aristotelian influences on Aquinas's natural philosophy and theology, see Simon Oliver, 'Motion according to Aquinas and Newton', Modern Theology 17 (2001), pp. 163-99
2. and Oliver, Philosophy, God and Motion (London: Routledge, forthcoming).
3. See Mark Jordan, Ordering Wisdom: The Hierarchy of the Philosophical Discourses in Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986),
4. and idem, 'Theology and Philosophy', in Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 232-51.
5. See, for example, Isaac Newton, trans. I.B. Cohen and A. Whitman, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, third edn, 1726) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. 408f.
6. Aritsotle, Physics, III. 1.201a.
7. This definition of motion has been the source of some confusion. Following L.A. Kosman ('Aristotle's Definition of Motion', Phronesis 14 (1969), pp. 40-62) it is possible to clarify Aristotle's view with the example of a journey.
8. See Aristotle, Physics, IV.8.215a.
9. Aquinas, Commentary on A ristotle 's Metaphysics (In Duodecim Libras Metaphysicorum Aristotelis), V.8.§873.
10. Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, V.8.§873.
11. Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima (In Aristotelis Librum De Anima Commentarium), trans. R. Pasnau (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), II.7.§314.
12. Aquinas, trans. R.J. Blackwell et al., Commentary on Aristotle's Physics (In Octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis) (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963), V.l. §641. Hereafter, this work is cited as In Physics.
13. Aquinas, In Physics, II.14. §268. Lectures 12, 13, and 14 of Book 2 contain Aquinas's comments on Aristotle's understanding of natural teleology.
14. Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 1a.59.4.responsio;
15. Aquinas, trans. R. McInemy, Disputed Questions on Virtue (Quaestio Disputata de Virtutibus In Communi and Quaestio Disputata de Virtutibus Cardinalibus) (South Bend, Indiana: St Augustine's Press, 1999), article 1. responsio.
16. On habitus as the unity of a science, see Armand Maurer, Being and Knowing: Studies in Thomas Aquinas and Later Medieval Philosophers (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990), ch. 1.
17. On the non-reactive and distinctive nature of Christian ethics, see John Milbank, 'Can Morality be Christian?' in The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture (Oxford': Blackwell, 1997), pp. 219-32.
18. Aquinas, De Veritate, 26.1.
19. See Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, II.2, 6-9.
20. See also Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, III.150.3. Hereafter, this work is cited as SCG.
21. See John Milbank and Catherine Piekstock, Truth inAquinas (London: Routledge, 2001), particularly chs 1 and 3;
22. Gilbert Narcisse, Les Raisons de Dieu: Argument de convenance et Esthétique théologique selon Thomas d'Aquin et Hans Urs Von Balthasar (Fribourg: Éditions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse, 1997), pp. 184ff;
23. and Nicholas Healey, Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 36ff., 87ff., 97ff.
24. Milbank and Pickstock, Truth in Aquinas, p. 60.