Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics. By Thomas M. Osborne, Jr
This is a modern book on a subject perennially central to the Christian tradition, examining the way it was handled in the thirteenth century by a series of authors in a variety of university contexts. Aquinas and Duns Scotus are given the central place. We are told by Jesus in the Gospel to love Go...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 343-344 |
| Review of: | Love of self and love of God in thirteenth-century ethics (Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2005) (Evans, Gillian)
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| Summary: | This is a modern book on a subject perennially central to the Christian tradition, examining the way it was handled in the thirteenth century by a series of authors in a variety of university contexts. Aquinas and Duns Scotus are given the central place. We are told by Jesus in the Gospel to love God above all things but also to love our neighbours and ourselves. With the arrival of Aristotle's ideas about agency, power and act, and teleology, and of his Ethics and Politics in the early thirteenth-century lecture room, this became a much more vexed question. ‘An agent not only should but must prefer his own good to that of other human persons’ is a statement which moves questions of affect into the arena of metaphysics. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll110 |