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This study locates Aquinas's theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace.

Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas's theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related. Part 1 examines Aquinas's own explicit remarks about the infused and acquired virtues and considers whether and to what extent a coherent theory of the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues can be found in Aquinas. K

Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues

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    Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
    Publication Date: 2/15/2024
    ISBN13: 9780268201104, 978-0268201104
    ISBN10: 0268201102

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society , Non Fiction

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    This study locates Aquinas's theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace.

    Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas's theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related. Part 1 examines Aquinas's own explicit remarks about the infused and acquired virtues and considers whether and to what extent a coherent theory of the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues can be found in Aquinas. K

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