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Notes

  1. Plato (1961) 20e ff.

  2. Aristotle (1987) 1138b ff.

  3. See Hadot (1995) for a discussion.

  4. See for example Augustine (1993) 2.11.

  5. See Boethius (1999).

  6. See Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, ed. B. Davies and G.R.Evans, (Oxford, OUP, 2008).

  7. See Avicenna (2005).

  8. See Averroes (1969).

  9. See Maimonides (1995).

  10. See Von Rad (1972).

  11. See Gethins (1998) p. 83.

  12. See for example Sosa et al. (2008) or Steup and Sosa (2005).

  13. See for example Baehr (2014), Grimm (2015), Maxwell (2007), Ryan (1999), Tiberius (2008), Whitcomb (2010a, b, c).

  14. See Carriero (2009).

  15. See O’Grady (2002).

  16. See O’Grady (2014).

  17. O’Grady (2013).

  18. Cited in Grimm (2015).

  19. The standard reference system to Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae gives the part, the question number and article number if needed. ST I-II q.2 a.7.

  20. See Stump (2003) Ch. 9 for a good account of this.

  21. ST I-II.q. 57.

  22. ST I q.1 a.6.

  23. See Wippel (2000) Chs 1–2 for a detailed discussion.

  24. Aquinas (1995), section 46.

  25. Aristotle (1987) 1141b4.

  26. ST II-II q. 47.

  27. ST II-II qq. 166–167.

  28. Ball (2012) p. 14.

  29. ST II-II q.47 a.3 ad 1.

  30. Kenny (1963) ch. 5.

  31. ST II-II q. 47 a.6.

  32. ST I-II q.94 a.2.

  33. ST III q. 3 a.8.

  34. ST I q.1.

  35. ST II-II q. 45.

  36. See Pinsent (2012)

  37. See Pinsent op cit Ch. 2.

  38. ST II-II q.45 a.2.

  39. See McGhee (2000) p. 12ff.

  40. ST I q.13 a.4.

  41. MacIntyre (2006) p. 143.

  42. See Zagzebski (1996) p. 15.

  43. See Zagzebski op cit p. 219ff.

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O’Grady, P. Theoretical Wisdom. J Value Inquiry 53, 415–431 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-019-09724-2

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