The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures 1973-74Discusses four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Claims moral precepts are absolute, utilitarianism is to be shunned, and sex apart from marriage is poison. |
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Why Men Need the Virtues | 1 |
can souls newly created by God contract sin with | 2 |
as it makes sense to ask What are hearts for? | 12 |
needed in any largescale worthy enterprise | 16 |
who lack faith cannot properly understand | 21 |
to bodies as Aquinas in fact teaches | 26 |
nervous system intellect is a capacity | 29 |
contrasts with the Platonic view The Socinian | 32 |
creatures they make known their petitions | 53 |
bungle | 64 |
tion of justice and prudence to God depends | 70 |
multiplication or diversity of concerns as between | 78 |
to how a solitary person could either exist or love | 80 |
sidered separately It may indeed be shown that | 108 |
no longer know when we are lying the evil | 114 |
if he lets the other fellow know of his changed | 118 |
are we to recognize the testimony of God? | 35 |
in a Person is misconceived a mans trust cannot | 37 |
truth in emergencies that tempt us to abandon it | 43 |
individuals or for the human race is quite | 48 |
e g extravagance and fussiness A glutton need | 133 |
parent apart from the JudaeoChristian tradition | 146 |
must be ready for a call to do great things | 153 |
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| Titel | The Virtues: The Stanton Lectures 1973-74 Stanton lectures The Stanton lectures 1973/74 |
| Autor/in | Peter Geach |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | CUP Archive, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0521213509, 9780521213509 |
| Länge | 173 Seiten |
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