Malloy Christopher Aquinas on Beatific Charity and the Problem of Love 9781945125157

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Автор: Malloy Christopher
Название: Aquinas on Beatific Charity and the Problem of Love
ISBN: 9781945125157
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Христанская жизнь и культовая практика Христианства

ISBN-10: 1945125152
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2019
Серия: Renewal within tradition
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 158 x 20
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Christopher J. Malloys Aquinas on Beatific Charity and the Problem of Love examines the relationship between the desire for happiness and the love of another, chiefly, the love of God for His own sake. Great thinkers judge the matters connected with this problem differently. Aristotle and others contend that the desire for happiness grounds ethical activity. Others contend that a pure love of God (or of the other) is not founded on desire for happiness. The former charge the latter with leaving love groundless, and the latter charge the former with reducing love to egoism.

Aquinass appreciation of the Aristotelian tradition is forefront in his classic treatment of human action, which begins with the desire for happiness. Accordingly, many readers, proponents and critics, read Aquinas as simply eudaimonistic. There are, however, other principles at work in his thought; these suggest a simple but profound difficulty in his thought, one reflective of the subtlety of real life. Are the two sets of principles contradictory? Juxtaposed?

Considering beatific charity as the ultimate lens for this problem, Malloy proposes that Aquinass texts and principles are hierarchically harmonious while developmentally complex. They indicate that love of happiness has a foundational role in human action and that love of God for His own sake has priority in the order of finality. This ordered balance depends upon a conception of the common good in accord with a metaphysics of participation: as having existence and formal perfection from and in likeness to the One Who Is, created persons incline to love God more than and more intensely than themselves. Thus, love of the Divine Other, while indeed the supreme love, especially as deified through charity, does not demand disinterested love. God truly is mans good: His true lover longs to be with Him.
Дополнительное описание: Theology|Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings|Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts|Medieval Western philosophy

Aquinas on Beatific Charity and the Problem of Love, Malloy Christopher