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2022 | 11 | 147-158

Article title

Oblicza umiarkowania. Cnota skromności w aretologii Tomasza z Akwinu

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Title variants

EN
Faces of temperance. The virtues of modesty in arethology of Thomas Aquinas

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Abstracts

EN
The paper presents an analysis of Thomas’ thought on the virtue of modesty and shows its relation to temperance and nobility. The matter of modesty is of lesser importance in the ethics of Thomas Aquinas. The virtue of modesty is subordinated to the virtue of temperance and its role is to help us shape our external steps and actions in order. When speaking of modesty Thomas willingly turns to the views of Cicero and Andronicus. In the Summa, in its parts dedicated to temperance, Aquinas analyses all kinds of modesty. Important among them is humility, which directly pertains to temperance. Its subject is to regulate our desire to be exceptional. Hence, humility gives us ability to proper self-esteem. All other virtues, which are kinds of modesty, regulate: our longing to knowledge, attitude toward neighbours, ways of spending our leisure time, ways of dressing up. Thomas points out in his texts that the process of achieving the virtue of modesty is not a complicated task, because its object does not cause any particular difficulties. Not as in the case of moderation, which needs auxiliary virtues in order to restraint our strong natural craving.

Year

Issue

11

Pages

147-158

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Dates

published
2022

Contributors

  • Akademia Bialska Nauk Stosowanych im. Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej

References

  • Sancti Thomae de Aquino, Summa Theologiae, Alba–Editiones–Palinae, Roma 1962.
  • Andrzejuk A., Komplementarność pokory i wielkoduszności w ujęciu św. Tomasza z Akwinu, „Edukacja Filozoficzna” 24 (1997), s. 345-349.
  • Andrzejuk I., Świętego Tomasza z Akwinu de regimine Judaeorum. Wstęp do przekładu Listu do Księżnej Brabancji (hrabiny Flandrii) oraz tłumaczenie: Epistola ad ducissam Brabanciae (comitissimam Flandriae), seria Opera philosophorum medii aevi, Tom 9, Fasc. 1, Tomasz z Akwinu. Opuscula, s.63-77.
  • Janik-Czachor M., Andrzejuk I., Jedność kontemplacji i działania w życiu Wandy Malczewskiej, „Rocznik Tomistyczny” 10 (2021), s. 148.
  • Mennessier I. A., Sprawności i cnoty, w: Wprowadzenie do zagadnień teologicznych. Teologia moralna, praca zbior., Poznań–Warszawa–Lublin 1962, s. 213- 214.

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki
5945358

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_5281_zenodo_7539203
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