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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778344903321

Autore

Hibbs Thomas S

Titolo

Aquinas, ethics, and philosophy of religion [[electronic resource] ] : metaphysics and practice / / Thomas Hibbs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-07825-9

9786612078255

0-253-11676-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Disciplina

189/.4

Soggetti

Ethics

Metaphysics

Religion - Philosophy

Virtue

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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