Perfection in death : the christological dimension of courage in Aquinas / Patrick M. Clark.
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TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9780813227986
- 0813227984
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Courage -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology
- RELIGION -- Agnosticism
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Perfection -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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- B765.T54 C518 2015eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Achilles and Socrates: ancient attempts to integrate virtue, death, and human perfection -- Practical reason, perfection, and finitude in Aquinas -- Death and human perfection in Aquinas -- The role of courage in Aquinas's account of human perfection -- Aquinas on courage, martyrdom, and the common good -- Contemporary exemplarist virtue theory and moral motivation in the face of death -- The prospect and limitations of Thomistic moral exemplarism.
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