Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance
Matthew Levering, "Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance"
English | ISBN: 0268106339 | 2019 | 466 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0268106339 | 2019 | 466 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Matthew Levering argues that Catholic ethics make sense only in light of the biblical worldview that Jesus has inaugurated the kingdom of God by pouring out his spirit. Jesus has made it possible for us to know and obey God’s law for human flourishing as individuals and communities. He has reoriented our lives toward the goal of beatific communion with him in charity, which affects the exercise of the moral virtues that pertain to human flourishing.
Without the context of the inaugurated kingdom, Catholic ethics as traditionally conceived will seem like an effort to find a middle ground between legalistic rigorism and relativistic laxism, which is especially the case with the virtue of temperance, the focus of Levering’s book. After an opening chapter on the eschatological/biblical character of Catholic ethics, the ensuing chapters engage Aquinas’s theology of temperance in the
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