Virtues of the Will: The Transformation of Ethics in the Late Thirteenth Century
Description
The concept of virtue ethics changed dramatically during the late thirteenth century. Though Thomas Aquinas, remaining fairly consistent with Aristotle's teachings, posits virtues in the emotional part of the soul, just thirty years later Duns Scotus argues that all moral virtues must belong to the will. The accepted, "textbook" account of ethics during this period, first popularized by Etienne Gilson and recently revived by Alasdair MacIntyre, presents Scotus as a proto-modern thinker who separated philosophy from theology and undermined the Thomistic synthesis of Aristoteli...
ISBN(s)
0813208297, 9780813208299
