The virtue of humility
Subtitle: a Thomistic apologetic
By: Lisa Fullam ; with a foreword by William R. O'Neill.
Series: Hors serie
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780773448896
Subjects: Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274; Humility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Humility : what it is, what it does; title: Humility : what it is not; title: What I will do; title: Humility according to Thomas Aquinas; title: The setting; title: The meaning of humility for Thomas; title: Humility according to Aristotle; title: Humility according to Thomas; title: Groundwork 1 : humility must be truthful; title: Groundwork 2 : Jesus is Thomas' paradigm of humility; title: Themes in concert; title: Humility's function : to moderate hope; title: Humility's motive : reverence for God; title: Humility's act : reasonable self-abasement; title: Where does it fit?; title: Humility and magnanimity : virtues a la mode; title: Magnanimity itself; title: Humility and magnanimity : Thomas' distinction; title: A construction based on Tomas; title: Humility as true self-knowledge : Augustine's understanding of humility; title: Truth in Augustine : wisdom, knowledge, and humility; title: The truth about ourselves : to know yourself is to know a sinner; title: Thomas and Augustine; title: Humility as true self-understanding in context : the desert ascetics and Aenedict early Christian asceticism; title: The desert ascetics; title: Benedict; title: The desert, the monastery, and the University of Paris; title: Humility : the practice of other-centeredness; title: Humility and self-abasement; title: Humility's motivation : God and not only God; title: Reclaiming the connection to magnanimity : mode and motivation in Thomas; title: Moral epistemology in light of humility; title: Humility : what good is it?; title: Moral truth with a hermeneutic of humility; title: Personal; title: Communal; title: Process of discovery.