Clark, Patrick Mahaney,

Perfection in death : the christological dimension of courage in Aquinas / Patrick M. Clark. - 1 online resource

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.

9780813227986 0813227984

22573/ctt18d8skr JSTOR


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.


Electronic books.

B765.T54 / C518 2015eb

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