Perfection in death : the christological dimension of courage in Aquinas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clark, Patrick Mahaney (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274. Courage > Religious aspects > Catholic Church. Perfection > Religious aspects > Catholic Church. Death > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.

Table of Contents:

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.