Wetzel tells us that "limits" in the title of this volume intends to connote two things. Negatively, it refers to Augustine's dissatisfaction with pagan accounts of virtue, especially their blindness toward the psychology of inner conflict. Positively, it refers to the saint's reformulated understanding of virtue within a theistic context in which he stresses the motivational integrity of graced willing.

Darge acknowledges that Suárez does in some manner continue the line of Avicenna and Duns Scotus. But focusing on the theme of the transcendental properties of being, which are reduced to unity, truth, and goodness, or, concretely, the one, the true, and the good, he sees the Suarezian metaphysics as a revival and a revision of pre-Scotist teaching, found especially in St. Thomas Aquinas’s De veritate I, a. 1. For his understanding of such pre-Scotistic doctrine, Darge follows in a thoughtful (...) but not slavish way Prof. Jan Aertsen, under whose direction the present volume first appeared at the Thomas Institut in Köln as its author’s Habilitationschrift. (shrink)