| Description |
x, 298 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Virtue. 1. Aristotle on Character Virtue. 2. Thomas Aquinas on Acquired Moral Virtue. 3. Thomas Aquinas on Theological and Infused Virtue -- pt. II. Friendship. 4. Aristotle on Friendship. 5. Aristotle on Friendship and Choice. 6. Thomas Aquinas on Friendship. 7. Thomas Aquinas on Friendship and Choice -- pt. III. Compassion for Friends. 8. Compassion's Complacency. 9. Compassion and Choice (1). 10. Compassion and Choice (2). 11. Compassion and the Christian Life. |
| Summary |
If suffering is one hallmark of the human condition, another is the virtue of compassion, which disposes persons to suffer the pain of others as partly their own. In Choosing to Feel, Diana Fritz Cates draws on an Aristotelian-Thomistic ethical foundation to develop an original theory of compassion as she explores how persons are able, and why they would want, to deliberately orient themselves toward the shared suffering of another person's pain. |
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While Cates's primary focus is rooted in the compassion that persons feel toward friends, her study culminates in an analysis of compassion for strangers and enemies. Throughout, Choosing to Feel promotes conceptual clarity and depth of understanding regarding what compassion is, how it can be cultivated, and why it should be nurtured as part of a full human life. |
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APPE gift. InGrD |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Aristotle.
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Compassion.
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Friendship.
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Virtue.
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Ethics.
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Empathy.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Aristotle. (OCoLC)fst00029885
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 (OCoLC)fst00029176
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Compassion. (OCoLC)fst00871385
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Virtue. (OCoLC)fst01167712
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Aristoteles v384-v322 (DE-588)118650130
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Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 (DE-588)118622110
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Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3
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Freundschaft (DE-588)4018480-8
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Aristotle.
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Thomas (von Aquin)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cates, Diana Fritz. Choosing to feel. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)605710518 |
| ISBN |
0268008140 (alk. paper) |
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9780268008147 (alk. paper) |
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