Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/de-gruyter/book-reviews-jWUVIBV735
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- © 2022 Anton ten Klooster et al., published by Sciendo
- eISSN
- 2657-3555
- DOI
- 10.2478/ejsta-2022-0005
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas EJSTA 40 (2022) • E. Sullivan, Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology • W.M. McCormick, The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas DOI: Aquinas 10.2478/ejsta-2022-0005 • P. Kwasniewski, The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas • C.M. Brown, Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven: Philosophical Problems, Thomistic Solutions E. Sullivan, Habits and Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2021) Sullivan sets out to “synthesize the conclusions of biology, philosophy, and theology regarding human habits” (p. xx) and to unify and order these different fields by the Thomistic perspective. He argues that of these, moral science is the most helpful “for it helps an individual to form his own habits and positively shape his own character” (p. 8). The main dichotomy between types of habits to Sullivan is that between natural- acquired on the one hand and supernatural-infused on the other hand. It has been objected by Servais Pinckaers and others that the English ‘habit’ or French ‘habitude’ suggests something mechanical. Sullivan engages this issue by exploring the different meanings of the word habitus and finds eight.
Journal
European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas – de Gruyter
Published: Oct 1, 2022