Add to ORKGIn the 13th century, when the Nicomachean Ethics was translated into Latin, the Aristotelian virtue of magnanimity seemed incompatible with the Christian virtue of humility. Thomas Aquinas proposed a conciliatory understanding of the two virtues. In this study I try to show that the German Dominican Meister Eckhart overturned the Thomistic solution: humility opens to divine grace, «per modum removentis prohibens», by contrasting itself with pride. This means, according to Eckhart, that humility contradicts man’s illusion of existing as an autonomous individual. Distancing himself from the Aristotelian ideal of the moderation of desires and adopting the Stoic ideal of annihilation of the passions, Eckhart implicitly denies the value of magna...
For many contemporary theologians, the connection between conscience and grace is a tenuous one at b...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most...
This work on a field of Theological Ethics concerns the subject of humility, an important Christian ...
Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality,...
Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality,...
Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality,...
The Aristotelian and thomistic conception of magnanimity (magnanimitas) has grown on the grounds of ...
Humility is a practically orphaned virtue in contemporary virtue ethics, and its theological associa...
In this thesis I develop a theology of humility, within the framework of Karl Barth's theology, that...
In this thesis I develop a theology of humility, within the framework of Karl Barth's theology, that...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
The aim of the article is to show the specificity of the fundamental fight in the soul and in the li...
According to Aristotle, a mans economic and political status characterizes him in one of two ways: ...
For many contemporary theologians, the connection between conscience and grace is a tenuous one at b...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most...
This work on a field of Theological Ethics concerns the subject of humility, an important Christian ...
Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality,...
Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality,...
Humility was perceived in the Christian Middle Ages as a fundamental moral and intellectual quality,...
The Aristotelian and thomistic conception of magnanimity (magnanimitas) has grown on the grounds of ...
Humility is a practically orphaned virtue in contemporary virtue ethics, and its theological associa...
In this thesis I develop a theology of humility, within the framework of Karl Barth's theology, that...
In this thesis I develop a theology of humility, within the framework of Karl Barth's theology, that...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
The aim of the article is to show the specificity of the fundamental fight in the soul and in the li...
According to Aristotle, a mans economic and political status characterizes him in one of two ways: ...
For many contemporary theologians, the connection between conscience and grace is a tenuous one at b...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...
In these brief remarks, I sketch Aquinas’s account of humility, courage, and magnanimity. The nature...