Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (S U N Y SERIES, TOWARD A COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGIONS)

Mencius and Aquinas 2 Page viii 7 Contents 7 Foreword 10 Acknowledgments 12 Chapter 1 The Comparative Philosophy of Religions and the Study of Virtue 14 I. Introduction: The Importance of the Comparative Philosophy of Religious Flourishings 14 II. General Differences and Similarities between Mencius and Aquinas 17 III. The Comparative Philosophy of Religions and the Three Realms of Ethics 19 IV. The General Conception of Virtue 26 V. Expansions and Semblances of Virtue 30 Chapter 2 The Context for Mencius and Aquinas's Ideas of Virtue 37 I. Issues in the Interpretation of Mencius and Aquinas 37 II. Aquinas's List of Virtues 41 III. The Two Notions Underlying Aquinas's Construction and Analysis of His List of Virtues 44 IV. Mencius's List of Virtues 48 V. A Comparison of Mencius and Aquinas's Lists of Virtues 52 VI. The Relationship of the Realms of Injunctions and Ways of Life in Mencius and Aquinas 56 Chapter 3 Mencius and Aquinas's Theories of Virtue 64 I. Mencius and Aquinas: The General Conception of Virtue 64 II. Mencius: Human Nature's Fundamental Inclinations as a Basis of Virtue 69 III. Mencius: True Virtue as a Product of Ethical Reasoning's Use of Extension, Attention, and the U... 73 IV. Mencius: Virtues, Their Semblances, and the Role of Intelligent Awareness 78 V. Aquinas: Reason and Nature 83 VI. Aquinas: Reason's Relationship to Inclinations and Emotions and the Resulting Understating of th... 90 VII. The Understanding of Human Failures to Be Virtuous in Mencius and Aquinas 95 VIII. The Picture of the Self Underlying This Type of Virtue Theory: Practical Reason, Emotions, and... 106 IX. The Picture of the Self Underlying This Type of Virtue Theory: The Formation of Emotions and the... 113 Chapter 4 Mencius and Aquinas's Conceptions of Courage 123 I. Introduction: The Distinguishing Marks oft he Virtue of Courage 123 II. Aquinas's Analysis of Ordinary Courage, Especially the Roles in It of Fear and Confidence 128 III. Aquinas's Differentiation of True Courage from Semblances of Courage 134 IV. Aquinas's Expansion of Courage and the Place of Endurance and the Willingness to Die 139 V. Aquinas on Courage's Specifically Religious Dimension, the Virtue of Patience, and the Highest Re... 146 VI. Mencius's General Conception of Courage and the Importance of Proper Self-Respect 154 VII. Mencius's Understanding of Perfected Courage: The Specific Features of His Analysis 160 VIII. Mencius's Understanding of Perfected Courage: A Theoretical Account and Brief Examination of t... 166 IX. Mencius's Expansion of Courage: The Appropriate Attitude to Fate and Heaven and a Brief Examinat... 169 Chapter 5 Conclusion 179 I Dissimilarities and Thin Resemblances between Mencius and Aquinas 180 II. Real Resemblances in Mencius and Aquinas's Understanding of Virtue 183 III. Primary, Practical, and Secondary Theories in the Comparative Philosophy of Religious Flourishi... 185 IV. Problems and Possibilities in Aquinas's Model for Comparing Apparently Different Ideas of Virtue... 192 V. Analogical Expression, Focal and Secondary Terms, and the Comparative Philosophy of Human Excelle... 198 VI. The Analogical Imagination and the Comparative Philosophy of Religions 206 Notes 214 Chapter 1. The Comparative Philosophy of Religions and the Study of Virtue 214 Chapter 2. The Context for Mencius and Aquinas's Ideas of Virtue 217 Chapter 3. Mencius and Aquinas's Theories of, Vintue 223 Chapter 4. Mencius and Aquinas's Conceptions of Courage 234 Chapter 5. Conclusion 243 Chinese Terms 247 Selected Bibliography 253 A. Translations of the Meng Tzu 253 B. Translations and Works of St. Thomas Aquinas 253 C. General 254 Index of Names 275 A 275 B 275 C 275 D 275 F 275 G 276 H 276 I 276 J 276 K 276 L 276 M 276 N 277 O 277 P 277 R 277 S 277 T 277 U 277 W 277 Y 278 Index of Subjects 279 A 279 B 280 C 280 D 281 E 281 F 282 G 282 H 283 I 283 J 283 K 284 L 284 M 284 N 284 O 284 P 284 R 285 S 286 T 286 U 287 V 287 W 288 Y 288 ""This is a path-breaking work, of the first importance for moral philosophy as well as for the comparative study of religion and morality. Detailed studies of particular conceptions of particular virtues are rare enough; but no one has hitherto contributed a comparative study of this kind. The detailed comparison of Mencius and Aquinas on courage throws new light on both authors and on the variety of dimensions involved in notions of courage. This choice of courage as the virtue to be compared turns out to have been unpredictably fruitful. Both Mencius and Aquinas are exhibited as at once analytical and creative in their treatments. Moreover the place of the treatment of courage within larger systematic frameworks and the importance of these frameworks is made clear. This is an indispensably useful book." -- Alasdair MacIntyre" -- From Amazon Lee H. Yearley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 245-266) And Indexes.