Aquinas, ethics, and philosophy of religion : metaphysics and practice /

Hibbs, Thomas S.

Aquinas, ethics, and philosophy of religion : metaphysics and practice / Thomas Hibbs. - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) - Indiana series in the philosophy of religion . - Indiana series in the philosophy of religion. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethics as a guide into metaphysics -- Virtue and practice -- Self-implicating knowledge: the practice of intellectual virtue -- Dependent animal rationality: epistemology as anthropology -- Metaphysics and/as practice -- Metaphysics, theology, and the practice of naming God -- The presence of a hidden God: idolatry, metaphysics, and forms of life -- Portraits of the artist: eros, metaphysics, and beauty -- Metaphysics of contingency, divine artistry of hope.

In Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, Thomas Hibbs recovers the notion of practice to develop a more descriptive account of human action and knowing, grounded in the venerable vocabulary of virtue and vice. Drawing on Aquinas, who believed that all good works originate from virtue, Hibbs postulates how epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and theology combine into a set of contemporary philosophical practices that remain open to metaphysics. Hibbs brings Aquinas into conversation with analytic and Continental philosophy and suggests how a more nuanced appreciation for his thought enric.

9780253116765 0253116767 (cloth ; alk. paper)


Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Thomas (von Aquin)


Ethics.
Metaphysics.
Religion--Philosophy.
Virtue.
First philosophy.
Virtues.
Morale.
Métaphysique.
Religion--Philosophie.
Vertus.
ethics (philosophy)
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Medieval.
Ethics.
Metaphysics.
Religion--Philosophy.
Virtue.
Metaphysik
Ethik
Metafysica.
Ethiek.


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