Aquinas: Justice as a Cardinal Virtue
This paper has two goals: 1) to understand justice as a cardinal virtue, according to Aquinas; and 2) to use his conception of justice as a cardinal virtue to understand how one engages in acts of general justice. The argument proceeds in four stages: 1) how Aquinas understands the virtues by look...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| RelBib Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KDB Roman Catholic Church NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This paper has two goals: 1) to understand justice as a cardinal virtue, according to Aquinas; and 2) to use his conception of justice as a cardinal virtue to understand how one engages in acts of general justice. The argument proceeds in four stages: 1) how Aquinas understands the virtues by looking to their objects; 2) the two distinct modes of the four cardinal virtues, as general and specific virtues; 3) the triangle of three kinds of justice, seen in terms of their objects; 4) Aquinas's doctrine of justice as a general virtue (ST 2-2.58.5-6) shows that we can perform operations of general justice in two ways, as do the ruler and his minsters, and as ordinary folk do. Surprisingly, it is the latter mode of acting for general justice that is primary, not the former. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7925 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc201822878 |