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... Aquinas ' treatment of the virtues which make of Aquinas an unexpectedly marginal figure to the history which I am writing . This is not to deny Aquinas ' crucial role as an interpreter of Aristotle ; Aquinas ' commentary on the ...
... Aquinas ' treatment of the virtues which make of Aquinas an unexpectedly marginal figure to the history which I am writing . This is not to deny Aquinas ' crucial role as an interpreter of Aristotle ; Aquinas ' commentary on the ...
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... Aquinas's own account a matter of faith , not of reason . Consider in this light Aquinas ' claim that if we encounter genuine moral conflict , it is always because of some previous wrong action of our own . Clearly this is one source of ...
... Aquinas's own account a matter of faith , not of reason . Consider in this light Aquinas ' claim that if we encounter genuine moral conflict , it is always because of some previous wrong action of our own . Clearly this is one source of ...
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... Aquinas in the course of his defence of St Augustine's definition of a virtue , and it is clear that Aquinas understood that in drawing it he was maintaining an Aristotelian point of view . The New Testament's account of the virtues ...
... Aquinas in the course of his defence of St Augustine's definition of a virtue , and it is clear that Aquinas understood that in drawing it he was maintaining an Aristotelian point of view . The New Testament's account of the virtues ...
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