PHIL 767
The Catholic University of America
Fall 2007
Dr. Angela McKay
Outline
Key:
STh – Summa
Theologica
DQV – Disputed
Questions on the Virtues
***Since DQV is a required
text, I have listed page numbers rather than individual questions and articles***
DV – Disputed
Questions on Truth
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Week
/ Date |
Topics |
Readings |
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1
/ Aug 29 |
Syllabus,
Introduction to the course: (1)
Thomistic ÒEthicsÓ? (2)
The distinction
between infused and acquired virtue |
none |
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2
/ Sep 5 |
AquinasÕ
general account of happiness, the general definitions of habits and virtues |
STh I-II q.1-5 STh I-II q.49-50; q.55-56 DQV: q.1 a.1-2 |
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3
/ Sep 12 |
(1) Nature and Virtue (2) The ÒseedsÓ of acquired virtue and
the ÒruleÓ of acquired virtue (3)
Digression: Natural Law |
Aristotle,
Physics Ch.1-2 DQV
p.42-60 STh I-II q.63 a.1-2 STh I q.79 DV q.11 a.1; q.16 a.1-3 LR:
Bernard Inagaki, ÒHabitus and Natura in AquinasÓ |
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4
/ Sep 19 |
(1)Theological
Virtues and the analogy of the ÒseedsÓ of virtue (2)
The introduction of infused moral virtue |
STh I-II q.62-63 DQV p.50-69 |
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5
/ Sep 26 |
(1)
The gifts of the Holy Spirit; (2)
Digression: the controversy over the gifts |
STh I-II q.68 LR:
excerpts from Joseph Warwykow, GodÕs Grace and Human Action; John Jenkins, Knowledge and Truth in Thomas
Aquinas; Garigou LaGrange, The
Three Ages of the Interior Life |
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6
/ Oct 3 |
Differences
between the infused and acquired virtues -- mean, survival conditions, facility |
STh I-II q.63; STh II-II q.24; STh III
q.89 DQV p.60-80 |
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7
/ Oct 17 |
ÒGracedÓ
acquired virtue? – part I |
STh I-II q.61 a.5 DQV p.269-277 |
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8
/ Oct 24 |
Part
II |
STh I-II q.63, q.65 DQV p.42-50; 250-259 |
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9
/ Oct 31 |
Charity,
the ÒformÓ of the virtues |
DV q.14 a.5-6 DM q.8 a.2 DQV p.121-128 STh II-II q.4 a.4; q.23 a.8 |
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10
/ Nov 7 |
Reading
II-II |
Assignment
to be announced |
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11
/ Nov 14 |
Fortitude
– part I |
STh II-II q.123, 124, 128, 139, 140 |
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12
/ Nov 21 |
Part
II |
STh II-II q.129, 134, 136, 137, 161 |
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13
/ Nov 28 |
Objections |
Assignment
to be announced |
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14
/ Dec 5 |
Open |
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