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Resilience and the virtue of fortitude : Aquinas in dialogue with the psychosocial sciences

Title: Resilience and the virtue of fortitude : Aquinas in dialogue with the psychosocial sciences / Craig Steven Titus.
Author: Titus, Craig Steven, 1959-
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2006.

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xii, 411 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Empirical research and virtue ethics find a fitting match in their respective studies of resilience and fortitude. The concept of resilience involves personal and social capacities to cope with difficulty, resist destruction under hardship, and construct something positive out of an otherwise negative situation. Although the concept is new, the human phenomenon is ancient. It has been attested to for millennia by poets, philosophers, and spiritual writers who have praised it in the language of the virtues. In addition to examining empirical resilience research, this book offers--at philosophical and theological levels--a basis for a hearty understanding of the human person in terms of the virtues that enable human beings to overcome difficulty when they are faced with fear and suffering, or when they are in need of imaginative daring and hope. The primary such virtue is fortitude. The present study employs the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his sources on fortitude and its related virtues, while taking his dialogal method as a basis for critically appropriating reflections from other perspectives as well. The book offers a renewed, classic vision of the human person and the ordering of the sciences as read through the complementary and, at one level, corrective insights of empirical psychosocial studies on resilience. Such a vibrant natural-law approach to ethical norms and moral development offers guidelines and a framework for understanding human resilience. Moreover, it recognizes a theological transformation of such human capacities--a spiritual resilience--by proposing the New Law of grace, Christ's teaching, and the infused virtues as vital bases for Christian ethics. Craig Steven Titus is research professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, as well as lecturer and researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In addition to serving as coeditor of Servais Pinckaers's The Pinckaers Reader, he is the editor of The Person and the Polis."--Publisher's website.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-398) and indexes.

Contents

1. The resilience perspective -- 2. Resilience input for a virtue-based philosophical anthropology -- 3. Renewing moral theology : aquinas' virtue theory and resilience research -- 4. Resilience and aquinas' virtue of fortitude -- 5. Constructive resilience and aquinas' virtues of initiative -- 6. Resistant resilience and aquinas' virtues of endurance -- 7. Aquinas' theological transformation of fortitude and resilience -- 8. A theological dimension of resilient initiative-taking? -- 9. Theological dimension of the virtues of enduring -- 10. Conclusions : resilience research and the renewal of moral theology.

ISBN

0813214637
9780813214634

LCCN

2005032945
9780813214634

OCLC

ocm62342727
62342727
SCSB-9462506

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library