HUM 6364 Aquinas on the Virtues
This course explores Thomas Aquinas’s teaching on the virtues, placing special emphasis on the cardinal (“hinge”) virtues—prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance—and the theological virtues—faith, hope, and charity (love). With Aquinas’s Summa theologiae as the principal text, we consider the nature of dispositions, habits, passions, and virtues; various ways of dividing the virtues (e.g., moral/intellectual, acquired/infused, etc.); a detailed treatment of the seven virtues mentioned above; and Aquinas’s account of human happiness, in light of his teachings on virtue.