Thomas Aquinas on Moral WrongdoingCover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Texts -- Introduction -- 1 Metaphysical Foundations -- Account of Human Nature -- The Process of Human Action -- Necessitation and Freedom -- 2 Evil as Privation -- The Ontological Status of Evil -- Objections to the Privation Theory -- Moral Goodness and Moral Appraisal -- Return to Privation -- 3 Aquinas's Account of Moral Wrongdoing: General Points and Defects in the Intellect -- Some General Distinctions -- The Roles of Will and Intellect in Wrong Actions -- Account of Voluntariness -- Wrongdoing That Originates in the Intellect -- 4 Aquinas's Account of Moral Wrongdoing: Defects in the Sensory Appetite -- Wrongdoing That Originates in the Sensory Appetite -- Practical Reasoning in Wrongdoing Originating in the Passions -- Weakness of Will -- 5 Aquinas's Account of Moral Wrongdoing: Defects in the Will -- Wrongdoing That Originates in the Will -- The Underlying Mechanism of Deliberate Wrongdoing -- Distinguishing between Evil and Ordinary Wrongdoing -- Is Aquinas's Account of Deliberate Wrongdoing Too Broad? -- Can Human Beings Perform Evil Simply for the Sake of Evil? -- 6 The Vices in Aquinas's Moral Psychology -- The Nature and Acquisition of Habits -- The Vices in Summa theologiae -- The Tradition of the Capital Vices -- The Capital Vices and Deliberate Wrongdoing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Metaphysical Foundations | 13 |
Evil as Privation | 36 |
General | 74 |
Defects | 100 |
Defects | 116 |
The Vices in Aquinass Moral Psychology | 148 |
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