Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

Tobias Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. His most recent book is Creatura intellecta (2002) and he has edited several anthologies, including A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy (2012). Jörn Müller is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Würzburg. His most recent book is Willensschwäche in Antike und Mittelalter (2009) and he has edited several anthologies, including a collection of commentaries on Plato's Phaedo (2011). Matthias Perkams is Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Jena. His most recent book is Selbstbewusstsein in der Spätantike (2008). He has edited several anthologies and Latin-German text editions, most recently Peter Abaelard, Theologia Scholarium (2010).

• 1. Introduction Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller and Matthias Perkams; 2. Historical accuracy in Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics T. H. Irwin; 3. Structure and method in Aquinas's appropriation of Aristotelian ethical theory Michael Pakaluk; 4. Duplex beatitudo: Aristotle's legacy and Aquinas's conception of human happiness Jörn Müller; 5. Aquinas on choice, will, and voluntary action Matthias Perkams; 6. Losable virtue: Aquinas on character and will Bonnie Kent; 7. Aquinas's Aristotelian defense of martyr courage Jennifer Herdt; 8. Being truthful with (or lying to) others about oneself Kevin Flannery, SJ; 9. Aquinas on Aristotelian justice: defender, destroyer, subverter, or surveyor? Jeffrey Hause; 10. Prudence and practical principles Tobias Hoffmann; 11. Aquinas on incontinence and psychological weakness Martin Pickavé; 12. Philia and caritas: some aspects of Aquinas's reception of Aristotle's theory of friendship Marko Fuchs; 13. Pleasure: a supervenient end Kevin White; 14. Aristotle, Aquinas, Anscombe, and the new virtue ethics Candace Vogler.

'… ideal for readers who wish to know what distinctively philosophical contributions Aquinas made to ethics … the authors bring together many sources and insights, sorting out what had been a messy debate. The result is perhaps the best book in print on Aquinas the moral philosopher, as opposed to Aquinas the moral theologian.' C. J. Wolfe, Claremont Review of Books